Turbellarians taxon details
Temnocephalidae Monticelli, 1899
Temnocephalida · unaccepted > superseded rank
Temnocephaloidea Baer, 1953 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Subfamily Actinodactylellinae Benham, 1901
- Subfamily Dactylocephalinae Blair, Cannon, Littlewood, Olson & Sewell, 2023
- Subfamily Decadidyminae Van Steenkiste, Rivlin, Kahn, Wakeman & Leander, 2021
- Genus Decadidymus Cannon, 1991
- Subfamily Diceratocephalinae Joffe, Cannon & Schockaert, 1998
- Subfamily Didymorchinae Bresslau & Reisinger, 1933
- Subfamily Scutariellinae Annandale, 1912
- Genus Bubalocerus Matjašič, 1958
- Genus Caridinicola Annandale, 1912
- Genus Monodiscus Plate, 1914
- Genus Paracaridinicola Baer, 1953
- Genus Scutariella Mrazek, 1907
- Genus Stygodyticola Matjašič, 1958
- Genus Subtelsonia Matjašič, 1958
- Genus Troglocaridicola Matjašič, 1958
- Subfamily Temnocephalinae Monticelli, 1899
- Genus Achenella Cannon, 1993
- Genus Craniocephala Monticelli, 1905
- Genus Craspedella Haswell, 1893
- Genus Gelasinella Sewell & Cannon, 1998
- Genus Heptacraspedella Cannon & Sewell, 1995
- Genus Notodactylus Baer, 1953
- Genus Temnocephala Blanchard, 1849
- Genus Temnohaswellia Pereira & Cuoccolo, 1941
- Genus Temnomonticellia Pereira & Cuoccolo, 1941
- Genus Temnosewellia Damborenea & Cannon, 2001
- Genus Zygopella Cannon & Sewell, 1995
- Genus Branchobdella Moquin-Tandon, 1846 accepted as Temnocephala Blanchard, 1849
- Genus Astacobdella Vallot, 1841 accepted as Temnocephala Blanchard, 1849
- Subfamily Craspedellinae Baer, 1931 accepted as Temnocephalinae Monticelli, 1899
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Monticelli, F. S. (1898). Sulla Temnocephala brevicornis Mont. 1889 e sulle Temnocephale in generale. <em>Bollettino della Società di Naturalisti in Napoli.</em> 12: 72-127. [details] 
Tyler, S., Artois, T.; Schilling, S.; Hooge, M.; Bush, L.F. (eds) (2006-2026). World List of turbellarian worms: Acoelomorpha, Catenulida, Rhabditophora. Temnocephalidae Monticelli, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/turbellarians/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=479209 on 2026-05-28
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Monticelli, F. S. (1898). Sulla Temnocephala brevicornis Mont. 1889 e sulle Temnocephale in generale. <em>Bollettino della Società di Naturalisti in Napoli.</em> 12: 72-127. [details]
status source Van Steenkiste, N. W. L.; Rivlin, N.; Kahn, P.; Wakeman, K.; Leander, B. S. (2021). Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of 'dalyelliid' and temnocephalid microturbellarians. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1841326
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Temnocephalida) Martinez Aquino, A.; Brusa, F.; Damborenea, C. (2014). Checklist of freshwater symbiotic temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora, Temnocephalida) from the Neotropics. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 90(2): 147-162., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.90.8688 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Temnocephalida) Van Steenkiste, N. W. L.; Rivlin, N.; Kahn, P.; Wakeman, K.; Leander, B. S. (2021). Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of 'dalyelliid' and temnocephalid microturbellarians. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1841326
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors
status source Van Steenkiste, N. W. L.; Rivlin, N.; Kahn, P.; Wakeman, K.; Leander, B. S. (2021). Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of 'dalyelliid' and temnocephalid microturbellarians. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1841326
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors
additional source (of Temnocephalida) Martinez Aquino, A.; Brusa, F.; Damborenea, C. (2014). Checklist of freshwater symbiotic temnocephalans (Platyhelminthes, Rhabditophora, Temnocephalida) from the Neotropics. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 90(2): 147-162., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.90.8688 [details] Available for editors
source of synonymy (of Temnocephalida) Van Steenkiste, N. W. L.; Rivlin, N.; Kahn, P.; Wakeman, K.; Leander, B. S. (2021). Grappleria corona gen. et sp. nov. (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela: Jenseniidae fam. nov.) and an updated molecular phylogeny of 'dalyelliid' and temnocephalid microturbellarians. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 1-12., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1841326
page(s): 269 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Temnocephalida) (from synonym Temnocephalida)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Temnocephalidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Temnocephalida)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Temnocephalida)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Temnocephaloidea Baer, 1953)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Temnocephalidae)
To Genbank (from synonym Temnocephalida)
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Temnocephalida)To the Turbellarian Taxonomic Database
(from synonym Temnocephaloidea Baer, 1953)