Apocreadiidae

Apocreadiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: Digenea
Order: Opisthorchiida
Suborder: Opisthorchiata
Superfamily: Opisthorchioidea
Family: Apocreadiidae
Skrjabin, 1942 [1]
Genera
See text

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.[2]

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera: [1]

References

  1. 1 2 Cribb, Thomas (2011). "Apocreadiidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
  2. Cribb, T.H.; R.A. Bray (1999). "A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species.". Syst Parasitol (PubMed) 44 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1023/a:1006197201426. PMID 10619071.

See also

Homalometron pallidum

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