Apocreadiidae
| Apocreadiidae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Opisthorchiida |
| Suborder: | Opisthorchiata |
| Superfamily: | Opisthorchioidea |
| Family: | Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 [1] |
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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]
- 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
- 1 2 Cribb, Thomas (2011). "Apocreadiidae". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ 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
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