Proterodiplostomidae Explained

Proterodiplostomidae is a monotypic family of trematodes in the order Diplostomida. It consists of one subfamily, Polycotylinae Monticelli, 1888,^[1] which consists of one genus, Cheloniodiplostomum Sudarikov, 1960,^[2] which consists of four species: Cheloniodiplostomum argentinense Palumbo & Diaz, 2018;^[3] Cheloniodiplostomum breve (MacCallum, 1921);^[4] Cheloniodiplostomum delillei (Zerecero, 1947);^[5] and Cheloniodiplostomum testudinis (Dubois, 1936).

Notes and References

1. Monticelli, F. S. (1888). Saggio di una morfologia del trematodi. Tesi per ottenere la privata docenza in Zoologia nella R. Naples: Università di Napoli: Stabilimento Tipografico Fili, Ferrante.
2. Sudarikov, V. E. (1960). Strigeidida: Diplostomatidae. In Skryabin, K. I. (Ed.), Trematodes of animals and man. Principles of trematodology. Moscow: Nauka.
3. Palumbo, E. & Diaz, J. (2018). New species and new record of the genus Cheloniodiplostomum (Trematoda: Proterodiplostomidae: Polycotylinae), parasites of freshwater turtles from Argentina. Parasitology Research,, 1–7.
4. MacCallum, G. (1926). Revue du genre Spirorchis MacCallum. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 4(1), 97–103.
5. Zerecero, M. C. (1947). Posición sistemática de Diplostomum brevis y D. cinosterni MacCallum, 1921, y descripción de un nuevo trematodo parásito de Chelydra serpentina (L. 1758). Anales del Instituto de Biologia Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 18, 507–516.