Apocreadiidae

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Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Opisthorchioidea Rank Family Subclass Digenea		Suborder Opisthorchiata Phylum Platyhelminthes Order Opisthorchiida
Similar Digenea, Bucephalidae, Plagiorchiida, Stephanostomum baccatum

Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic marine flukes in the class Trematoda.

Characteristics

Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a rod-shaped excretory vesicle, no cirrus-sac and the genital pore just in front of the ventral sucker or occasionally just behind it.

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:

Callohelmis Cribb & Bray, 1999

Choanodera Manter, 1940

Crassicutis

Dactylotrema Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957

Homalometron Stafford, 1904

Marsupioacetabulum Yamaguti, 1952

Megacreadium Nagaty, 1956

Microcreadium Simer, 1929

Myzotus Manter, 1940

Neoapocreadium Siddiqi & Cable, 1960

Neomegacreadium Machida & Kuramochi, 1999

Neomegasolena Siddiqi & Cable, 1960

Pancreadium Manter, 1954

Posterotestis Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003

Postporus Manter, 1949

Procaudotestis Szidat, 1954

Schistorchis Lühe in Herdman, 1906

Sphincteristomum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961

Sphincterostoma Yamaguti, 1937

Trematobrien Dollfus, 1950

References

Apocreadiidae Wikipedia

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References