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

Hirudinellidae Dollfus, 1932

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Lampritrematinae*	Yamaguti, 1940	synonym

Children

Botulus Guiart, 1938
Hirudinella de Blainville, 1828
Lampritrema Yamaguti, 1940

Literature

original description	Dollfus, R. P. (1932). Trematodes. Resultats scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Leopold de Belgique. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 2 (10), 1-13.
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	Gibson, D. I. & Bray, R. A. 1977. The Azygiidae, Hirudinellidae, Ptychogonimidae, Sclerodistomidae and Syncoeliidae of fishes from the north-east Atlantic. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 32: 167–245.
additional source	Choudhary, K.; Verma, A. K.; Swaroop, S.; Agrawal, N. (2015). A review on the molecular characterization of digenean parasites using molecular markers with special reference to ITS region. Helminthologia. 52(3): 167-187.
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.
identification resource	Gibson, D. I.; Bray, R. A. (1979). The Hemiuroidea: terminology, systematics and evolution. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). 36: 35-146.
identification resource	Gibson D. I. (2002). Family Hirudinellidae Dollfus, 1932. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 375–378.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L H. (1957). Additions to Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Osnovy Trematodologii. 13, 601–779. (In Russian).