Helicometrinae

Helicometrinae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Opecoelidae
Subfamily:	Helicometrinae Bray, Cribb, Littlewood & Waeschenbach, 2016[1]

Helicometrinae is a subfamily of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Genera

• Helicometra Odhner, 1902[2]
• Helicometrina Linton, 1910[3]
• Neohelicometra Siddiqi & Cable, 1960[4]
• Proneohelicometra Hassanine, 2006[5]

References

1. Bray, R. A., Cribb, T. H., Littlewood, D. T. & Waeschenbach, A. (2016). The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica, 63(13), 1–11.
2. Odhner, T. (1902). Mitteilungen zur Kenntnis der Distomem II. 3. Helicometra n. g. Allocreadiinarum. Centralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, und Infektionskrankheiten XXXI, 160–162.
3. Linton, E. (1910). Helminth fauna of the Dry Tortugas. II. Trematodes. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication No. 133, 11–98.
4. Siddiqi, Ather H. & Cable, Raymond M. (1960). Digenetic Trematodes of Marine Fishes of Puerto Rico. Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands 17(3).
5. Hassanine, R. M. E. (2006). Trematodes from Red Sea fishes: Proneohelicometra aegyptensis gen. nov., sp. nov. (Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925) and Neohypocreadium gibsoni sp. nov. (Lepocreadiidae Odhner, 1905). Acta Parasitologica, 51(4), 249–254.