Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda

Aspidogastrea Faust & Tang, 1936

Rank: Subclass
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aspidogastrida Dollfus, 1958
Stichocotylida Gibson & Chinabut, 1984

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: aspidogastrean flukes

Japanese: 楯吸虫亜綱

Literature

basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Aspidogastrea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 136
taxonomy source	Alves, P. V.; Vieira, F. M.; Santos, C. P.; Scholz, T.; Luque, J. L. (2015). A Checklist of the Aspidogastrea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of the World. Zootaxa. 3918(3): 339.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1952). Trematode subclass Aspidogastrea Faust et Tang, 1936. Osnovy Trematodologii. 6: 6–149. (In Russian).
identification resource	Rohde, K. (2002). Subclass Aspidogastrea Faust & Tang, 1936. In: Gibson, D.I., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International, pp.5-14.