Family CONCHOPHTHIRIDAE Kahl in Doflein & Reichenow, 1929

Syn.	Conchophthiriidae

Body laterally compressed, generally ellipsoidal to broadly reniform in shape, with dense and uniform ciliation; buccal caviry relatively small, located nearly equatorially on ventral surface; commensals in mantle caviry (on gills) of fresh-water bivalve molluscs.

[Some workers would place this family in the following suborder.]

Conchophthirus Stein, 1861 (syn. Conchophthirius). Several spp.
Conchoscutum Raabe, 1947. Single species.