Class Digenea (Trematoda) - The Flukes.
The platyhelminth class Trematoda comprises two subclasses with largely disparate species diversity, the small Aspidogastrea with c.80 species and the speciose Digenea with c.18,000 species, which has attracted much effort towards our understanding of evolutionary relationships among suprageneric taxa. This chapter focuses on insights into the classification of the Digenea that have become.