Name - Polystomatidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:98270 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Polystomatidae Carus 1863

• Polystomatidae Gamble 1896

• Polystomatidae Beneden 1858

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

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Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Assessment of platyhelminth diversity within amphibians of French Guiana revealed a new species of Nanopolystoma (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) in the caecilian Typhlonectes compressicauda.
• Eupolystoma namibiensis n. sp. (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) parasitic in Poyntonophrynus hoeschi (Ahl, 1934) of Namibia.
• Evolutionary processes involved in the diversification of chelonian and mammal polystomatid parasites (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) revealed by palaeoecology of their hosts.
• First record of viviparity in polystomatid flatworms (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) with the description of two new species of Madapolystoma from the Madagascan anuran hosts Blommersia domerguei and Mantella expectata.
• Eye to eye: classification of conjunctival sac polystomes (Monogenea: Polystomatidae) revisited with the description of three new genera Apaloneotrema n. g., Aussietrema n. g. and Fornixtrema n. g.

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