Aspidogastridae Explained

Aspidogastridae is a family of trematodes in the order Aspidogastrida.

Genera

• Subfamily Aspidogastrinae Poche, 1907
  • Aspidogaster Baer, 1827^[1]
  • Lobatostoma Eckmann, 1932^[2]
  • Lophotapsis Looss, 1902^[3]
  • Multicotyle Dawes, 1941^[4]
  • Neosychnocotyle Snyder & Tkach, 2007^[5]
  • Sychnocotyle Ferguson, Cribb & Smales, 1999^[6]
• Subfamily Cotylaspidinae Chauhan, 1954^[7]
  • Cotylapsis Leidy, 1857^[8]
  • Cotylogaster Monticelli, 1892^[9]
  • Lissemysia Sinha, 1935^[10]
• Subfamily Rohdellinae Gibson & Chinabut, 1984^[11]
  • Rohdella Gibson & Chinabut, 1984^[11]

Notes and References

1. Baer, K. E. (1827). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der niedern Thiere. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum, 13, 523–762.
2. Eckmann, F. (1932). Über zwei neue Trematoden der Gattung Aspidogaster. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde, 4, 395–399.
3. Looss, A. (1902). Über neue und bekannte Trematoden aus Seeschildkröten. Nebst Eröterung zur Systematik und Nomenclatur. Zoologischer Jahrbücher, Abreilung zür Systematik, Geographie, und Biologie der Tiere, 16, 411–894.
4. Dawes, B. (1941). On Multicotyle purvisi, n. g. n. sp., an aspidogastrid trematode from the river turtle, Siebenrockiella crassicollis, in Malaya. Parasitology, 33, 300–305.
5. Snyder, S. D. & Tkach, V. V. (2007). Neosychnocotyle maggie, n. gen., n. sp. (Platyhelminthes: Aspidogastrea) from freshwater turtles in northern Australia. The Journal of Parasitology, 41, 587–594.
6. Ferguson, M. A., Cribb, T. H. & Smales, L. R. (1999). Life-cycle and biology of Sychnocotyle kholo n. g., n. sp. (Trematoda: Aspidogastrea) in Emydura macquarii (Pleurodira: Chelidae) from southern Queensland, Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 43, 41–48.
7. Chauhan, B. S. (1954). Studies on the trematode fauna of India. Part II. Subclass Aspidogastrea. Records of the Indian Museum, 51, 209–230.
8. Leidy, J. (1857). Observations on Entozoa found in Naiades. Proceeding of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 9, 18.
9. Monticelli, F. S. (1892). Cotylogaster michaelis n. g., n. sp. e revisione degli Aspidobothridae. In Taschenberg, E. O. W. (Ed.), Festshrift zum Siebenzigsten Geburtstage Rudolf Leuckarts (pp. 168–214). Leipzig: Wilhelm Englemann.
10. Sinha, C. B. (1935). Morphology of a new genus of trematode, family Aspidogastridae Poche, 1907, from the intestine of a tortoise, Lissemys punctata, together with a key for the identification of the known genera. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences, 1(11), 677–685.
11. Gibson, D. & Chinabut, S. (1984). Rohdella siamensis gen. et sp. nov. (Aspidogastridae: Rohdellinae subfam. nov.) from fresh water fishes in Thailand, with a reorganization of the classification of the subclass Aspidogastrea. Parasitology, 88(3), 383–393.