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

Megaperidae Manter, 1934

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Apocreadiidae*	Skrjabin, 1942	synonym

Children

Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942
Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942

Literature

original description	Manter, H. W. (1934). Megapera, new name for the trematode genus Eurypera Manter, 1933. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society. 53: 293.
status source	Blend, C. K.; Karar, Y. F. M.; Dronen, N. O. (2017). Revision of the Megaperidae Manter, 1934 n. comb. (Syn. Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942) including a reorganization of the Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942. Zootaxa. 4358(1): 1.
status source	Manter, H.W. (1947). The digenetic trematodes of marine fishes of Tortugas. American Midland Naturalist. 38, 257–416.
status source	Manter, H.W. (1963). Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. II. Families Lepocreadiidae, Opistholebetidae, and Opecoelidae. Journal of Parasitology. 49, 99–113.
status source	Blend, C. K.; Karar, Y. F. M.; Dronen, N. O. (2019). Case 3775 – Megaperidae Manter, 1934 and Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942 (Platyhelminthes, Digenea): proposed re-establishment of precedence of the older family-group name. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 76(1): 23.
status source	Blend, C. K.; Karar, Y. F. M.; Dronen, N. O. (2024). Decision favoring Megaperidae Manter, 1934 and errata as relates to Blend et al. 2017. Zootaxa. 5424(1): 136-138.
taxonomy source	ICZN. (2022). Opinion 2483 (Case 3775) – Megaperidae Manter, 1934 (Platyhelminthes, Digenea): precedence re-established over Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 79(1).
identification resource	Bray, R. A. (2005). Family Megaperidae Manter, 1934. In: Jones, A., Bray,. R.A., Gibson, D.I. (Eds). Keys to the Trematoda. Volume 2. Wallingford, CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum, pp. 683–685.
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1960). Family Megaperidae Poche, 1925. Osnovy Trematodologii. 17: 30–36. (In Russian).
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I. (1947). Family Megaperidae Manter, 1934. Osnovy Trematodologii. 1: 132–144. (In Russian, English translation, 1979, by Amerind Publishing Co.).