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Apocreadiidae

Family of flukes

Summary

Family of flukes

**Apocreadiidae ** is a family of parasitic worms 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:

  • Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942
    • Callohelmis Cribb & Bray, 1999
    • Choanodera Manter, 1940
    • Crassicutis Manter, 1936
    • Dactylotrema Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957
    • Homalometron Stafford, 1904
    • Marsupioacetabulum Yamaguti, 1952
    • Microcreadium Simer, 1929
    • Myzotus Manter, 1940
    • Neoapocreadium Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
    • Neomegasolena Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
    • Pancreadium Manter, 1954
    • Posterotestis Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003
    • Procaudotestis Szidat, 1954
    • Trematobrien Dollfus, 1950
  • Megaperinae Manter, 1934
    • Haintestinum Pulis, Curran, Andres & Overstreet, 2013
    • Megapera Manter, 1934
    • Thysanopharynx Manter, 1933
  • Postporinae Yamaguti, 1958
    • Postporus Manter, 1949
  • Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942
    • Megacreadium Nagaty, 1956
    • Neomegacreadium Machida & Kuramochi, 1999
    • Schistorchis Lühe in Herdman, 1906
    • Sphincteristomum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961
    • Sphincterostoma Yamaguti, 1937

References

References

  1. (1999). "A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species.". Syst Parasitol.
  2. Cribb, Thomas. (2011). "Apocreadiidae".
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