Spathebothriidae is a family of
flatworms
Platyhelminthes (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates commonly called ...
belonging to the order
Spathebothriidea
Spathebothriidea is an order of Cestoda (tapeworms). Members of this order are gut parasites
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another org ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Spathebothrium''
Linton, 1922
References
Platyhelminthes
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