Bivesiculidae Explained

Bivesiculidae is a family of trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida.

Genera

• Bivesicula Yamaguti, 1934
• Bivesiculoides Yamaguti, 1938^[1]
• Paucivitellosus Coil, Reid & Kuntz, 1965^[2]
• Treptodemoides Shen & Qiu, 1995^[3]
• Treptodemus Manter, 1961^[4]

Notes and References

1. Yamaguti, S. (1938). Studies on the helminth fauna of Japan. Part 21. Trematodes of fishes, IV. Kyōto: Yamaguti, S.
2. Coil, W. H., Reid, W. A. & Kuntz, R. E. (1965). Paucivitellosus fragilis gen. et sp. nov. (Bivesiculidae: Digenea), a parasite of Chelon troscheli from Formosa. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 84(3), 365–368.
3. Shen, J. W., & Qiu, Z. Z. (1995). Studies on the trematodes of fishes from the Yellow Sea and the Bo Hai Sea. Beijing: Science Press.
4. Manter, H. W. (1961). Studies on digenetic trematodes of fishes of Fiji. I. Families Haplosplanchnidae, Bivesiculidae, and Hemiuridae. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 28(1), 67–74.