Opecoelidae
| Opecoelidae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Suborder: | Opecoelata |
| Family: | Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 |
Opecoelidae is a family of flatworm. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.[1] It is now considered to belong in the superfamily Opecoeloidea Ozaki, 1925 or the Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905.[1]
Partial list of genera
- Alloanomalotrema
- Allopodocotyle
- Allostenoperca
- Anomalotrema
- Apertile
- Apopodocotyle
- Bartoliella
- Bathycreadium
- Buticulotrema
- Cainocreadium
- Coitocaecum
- Crowcrocaecum
- Dactylomyza
- Dactylostomum
- Decemtestis
- Diplobulbus
- Discoverytrema
- Eurycreadium
- Fairfaxia
- Gaevskajatrema
- Genitocotyle
- Hamacreadium
- Helicometra
- Helicometrina
- Jerguillicola
- Macrourimegatrema
- Macvicaria
- Manteriella
- Neohelicometra
- Neolebouria
- Neonotoporus
- Neopecoelus
- Neopodocotyloides
- Nezpercella
- Nicolla
- Opecoelina
- Opecoeloides
- Opecoelus
- Opegaster
- Opercoelus
- Ozaki
- Pachycreadium
- Paropecoelus
- Pellamyzon
- Peracreadium
- Plagioporus
- Podocotyle
- Podocotyloides
- Poracanthium
- Proneohelicometra
- Pseudopecoeloides
- Pseudopecoelus
- Pseudopycnadena
- Pycnadenoides
- Scorpidometra
- Stenakron
- Stenoperca
- Tellervotrema
References
- 1 2 Bray, Rodney A.; Cribb, Thomas H.; Littlewood, D. Timothy J.; Waeschenbach, Andrea (2016). "The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily". Folia Parasitologica 63. doi:10.14411/fp.2016.013. ISSN 0015-5683.
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