Echinostomata is a

suborder Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...

of the

parasitic Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has c ...

flatworm The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...

order

Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few significant parasites of humans. The following families are placed here, organ ...

. The suborder contains numerous species that are parasitic in humans.

Families

All families are in the superfamily Echinostomatoidea Looss, 1902.Looss, A. (1902). Die Distomen-Unterfamilie der Haploporinae. ''Archives de Parasitologie'', 6, 129–143. It has been synonymised with Cyclocoeloidea Stossich, 1902. * Calycodidae Dollfus, 1929Dollfus, R. P. (1929). Sur les Tétrarhynques. I. Définition des genres. ''Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France'', 54, 308–342. * Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902Stossich, M. (1902). Monostomum mutabile Zeder e le sue forme affini. ''Bollettino della Societ’a Adriatica di Scienz Naturali in Trieste'', 21, 1–40. *

Echinochasmidae Echinochasmidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few signific ...

Odhner, 1910Odhner, T. (1910). Nordafrikanische Trematoden größtenteils vom weißen Nil. ''Results of the Swedish zoological expedition to Egypt and the White Nile, 1901'', 23A, 1–170. *

Echinostomatidae Echinostomatidae is a Family (biology), family of Trematoda, trematodes in the Order (biology), order Plagiorchiida, first described in 1899.Fuhrmann, O. (1928). ''Zweite Klasse des Cladus Platyhelminthes: Trematoda''. Berlin & Leipzig: Kükentha ...

Looss, 1899Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus ''Distomum'' Retzius. ''Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere'', 12, 521–784. *

Eucotylidae Eucotylidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few sig ...

Cohn, 1904Cohn, L. (1904). Helminthologische Mitteilungen. 2. ''Archiv für Naturgeschichte'', 70, 229–252. *

Fasciolidae Fasciolidae is a family of trematodes and includes several parasites involved in the veterinary and medical sciences, which cause the disease Fasciolosis. Fasciolidae is divided into five genera by Olson et al. 2003. The family's various species ...

Railliet, 1895Railliet, A. (1895). Sur une forme particulière de douve hépatique provenant de Sénégal. ''Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris'', 47, 338–340. * Himasthlidae Odhner, 1910 *

Philophthalmidae Philophthalmidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few signific ...

Looss, 1899 * Psilostomidae Looss, 1900Looss, A. (1900). Nachträgliche Bemerkungen zu den Namen der von mir vorgeschlagenen Distomidengattungen. ''Zoologischer Anzeiger'', 23, 601–608. * Rhytidodidae Odhner, 1926Odhner, N. H. (1926). Die Opisthobranchien. ''Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-1903, under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjöld'', 2(1), 1–100. * Typhlocoelidae Harrah, 1922Harrah, E. C. (1922). North American monostomes primarily from freshwater hosts. ''Illinois Biological Monographs'', 7, 162–165.

References

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