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

Lecithasterinae Odhner, 1905

Rank: Subfamily
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Lecithaster Lühe, 1901
Opistholecithum Vainutis & Voronova, 2025 nec Baer, 1970

Literature

original description	Odhner, T. (1905). Die Trematoden des arktischen Gebietes. Fauna Arctica. 4: 289-372.
additional source	Looss, A. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Distomenfamilie Hemiuridae. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 31, 585–620.
additional source	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L H. (1957). Additions to Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch, 1951) Skrjabin et Guschanskaja, 1954. Osnovy Trematodologii. 13, 601–779. (In Russian).
identification resource	Skrjabin, K. I., Guschanskaja, L. K. (1954). Suborder Hemiurata (Markevitsch) Skrjabin & Guschanskaja, 1954. First part. Osnovy Trematodologii. 9, 225–653. (In Russian).
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	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	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 Lecithasteridae Odhner, 1905. In: Gibson, D. I., Jones, A. & Bray, R. A. [Eds]. Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 1. Wallingford: CAB International and the Natural History Museum, pp. 381–396.