original description
Stummer-Traunfels, Rudolf. (1926 [imprint 1923?]). Myzostomida. <em>p.132-210 in T. Krumbach ed., Handbuch der Zoologie.</em> vol. 3. gegründet von Willy Kükenthal: Berlin & Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter & Co. [details]
taxonomy source
Wagin V.L., Nigmatullin Ch.M. (2007). Morphology, ecology, systematics, and phylogeny of the family Protomyzostomidae (Myzostomida): A review. (In Russian). <em>Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Estestvennye Nauki.</em> 149(3): 49–59., available online at https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=11137620 [details] Available for editors [request]
From editor or global species database
Spelling The alternate spelling Protomyzostomatidae is incorrect as -stomidae is the family name ending for genera ending in "stomum" (based on a Greek noun, but transliterated incorrectly into Latin with a change in ending. Art. 29.3.2) [details]