Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Platyhelminthes - (Class) Neoophora

Phylogeny

Paraphyletic/Ancestral (para)

Ref: E.P. Hoberg et al., 1997: abstract.

Original entries

Dioecotaeniidae (Family) Schmidt, 1969

Subsequent entries

Rhoptrobothriidae (Family) Caira, Jensen & Ruhnke, 2017

Ref: J.N. Caira et al., 2017: table 3 (p. 399).

Current position

Eucestoda ([unranked])

Ref: E.P. Hoberg et al., 1997: abstract.

Alternative positions

Cestoda (Infraclass)	Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 47).
Cestoda (Class)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 599.
Cestoidea (Class)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 444.
Eucestoda (Subclass)	Ref: WoRMS Editorial Board, 2009-present: 27 Feb 2012.

Historical positions

Cestoda (Class)	Ref: A. Waeschenbach & D.T.J. Littlewood, 2017: table 3 (p. 434), 436 (fig. 1A). [implicit]
Cestoda (Infraclass)	Ref: M.A. Ruggiero et al., 2015b: table 2 (p. 47).
Eucestoda ([unranked])	Ref: E.P. Hoberg et al., 1997: abstract.
Eucestoda (Subclass)	Ref: G.D. Schmidt, 1982: 816.
Cestoda (Class)	Ref: I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt et al., 1975 (1971): 599.
Cestoidea (Class)	Ref: E.R. Lankester, 1877: 444.

Number of Subtaxa

1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000: 22 Jun 2019	[6f;28g;126s]
2010-present	J.N. Caira & K. Jensen: 1 Mar 2012	64g;>400s
2017	J.N. Caira et al.: table 3 (p. 400)	[6f;30g;120s]
1982	G.D. Schmidt: 816	4f[37g>200s]
1982	G.D. Schmidt: 816	4f[37g>200s]