Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Platyhelminthes > Subphylum Rhabditophora > Superclass Neodermata > Class Trematoda > Subclass Digenea > Order Plagiorchiida > Suborder Hemiurata

Hemiuroidea Looss, 1899

Rank: Superfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Accacoeliidae Odhner, 1911
Bunocotylidae Dollfus, 1950
Derogenidae Nicoll, 1910
Didymozoidae Monticelli, 1888
Gonocercidae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1955
Hemiuridae Looss, 1899
Hirudinellidae Dollfus, 1932
Lecithasteridae Odhner, 1905
Lecithophyllidae Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954
Merlucciotrematidae Vainutis & Voronova, 2025
Paraccacladiidae Bray & Gibson, 1977
Ptychogonimidae Dollfus, 1937
Sclerodistomidae Odhner, 1927
Sclerodistomoididae Gibson & Bray, 1979
Syncoeliidae Looss, 1899

Literature

basis of record	Gibson, D.I. (2001). Digenea, 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. 136-142
additional source	Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 pp.
additional source	Blair, D., Bray, R.A., Barker, S.C. (1998). Molecules and morphology in phylogenetic studies of the Hemiuroidea (Digenea: Trematoda: Platyhelminthes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 9, 15-25.
taxonomy source	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.
taxonomy source	Sokolov, S. G.; Atopkin, D. M.; Urabe, M.; Gordeev, I. I. (2019). Phylogenetic analysis of the superfamily Hemiuroidea (Platyhelminthes, Neodermata: Trematoda) based on partial 28S rDNA sequences. Parasitology. 146 (5): 596-603.
taxonomy source	Louvard, C.; Cutmore, S. C.; Yong, R. Q.; Dang, C.; Cribb, T. H. (2022). First elucidation of a didymozoid life cycle: Saccularina magnacetabula n. gen. n. sp. infecting an arcid bivalve. International Journal for Parasitology.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. H. (1960). Classification and general morphological and biological characterization of trematodes of the suborder Hemiurata. Osnovy Trematodologii. 17: 532–640. (In Russian). (IPST Jerusalem 1964 369–444).
identification resource	Gibson, D.I. (2002). Superfamily Hemiuroidea Looss, 1899. In: Gibson, D.I., Jones, A. & Bray, R.A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International & the Natural History Museum, pp. 299–304.
identification resource	Vainutis, K. S.; Voronova, A. N. (2025). New insights in the systematics of the Hemiuroidea (Digenea: Hemiurata) based on the integrative taxonomy approach. Systematic Parasitology. 102:17.
identification resource	Chauhan, B. S. (1953). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part iv. Subclass Digenea (Prosostomata). (A revision of Hemiuroidea from the Indian Region). Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. 51 (2): 289–393.
identification resource	Manter, H. W. (1970). The terminology and occurrence of certain structures of digenetic trematodes, with special reference to the Hemiuroidea. In:. H.D. Srivastava Commemoration Volume. Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Izatnagar, U.P., India, pp. 27–33.