Otobothriidae

Otobothrioidea Dollfus is part of the five superfamilies of Palm's system. Through evolution it is seen that the bothrial pits of Otobothrioidea and the bothrial grooves of the Lacistorhynchoidea Guiart are related (Haseli, & Malekpour Fard, Z., 2017).

Otobothriidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Cestoda
Order:	Trypanorhyncha
Family:	Otobothriidae Dollfus, 1942

Otobothriidae is a family of tapeworm created by Robert-Philippe Dollfus in 1942.

Genera

• Diplootobothrium
• Fossobothrium
• Otobothrium
• Poecilancistrium
• Pristiorhynchus^[1]
• Proemotobothrium
• Symbothriorhynchus

References

1. Schaeffner; Beveridge (2013). "Pristiorhynchus palmi n. g., n. sp. (Cestoda: Trypanorhyncha) from sawfishes (Pristidae) off Australia, with redescriptions and new records of six species of the Otobothrioidea Dollfus, 1942". Systematic Parasitology. 84 (2): 97–121. doi:10.1007/s11230-012-9391-6. hdl:11343/282784. PMID 23299749. S2CID 3129825.

  Haseli, & Malekpour Fard, Z. (2017). A new genus and species of the trypanorhynch family Otobothriidae Dollfus, 1942 from the slender weasel shark Paragaleus randalli Compagno, Krupp & Carpenter (Hemigaleidae) in the Persian Gulf. Systematic Parasitology, 94(7), 765–775. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9738-0