Apocreadiidae is a
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
of parasitic worms in the class
Trematoda
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is a mol ...
.
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
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial s ...
:
*Apocreadiinae
Skrjabin, 1942
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Callohelmis''
Cribb & Bray, 1999
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Choanodera''
Manter, 1940
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Crassicutis''
Manter, 1936
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Dactylotrema''
Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957
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Homalometron''
Stafford, 1904
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Marsupioacetabulum''
Yamaguti, 1952
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Microcreadium''
Simer, 1929
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Myzotus''
Manter, 1940
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Neoapocreadium''
Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Neomegasolena''
Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Pancreadium''
Manter, 1954
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Posterotestis''
Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003
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Procaudotestis''
Szidat, 1954
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Trematobrien''
Dollfus, 1950
*Megaperinae
Manter, 1934
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Haintestinum''
Pulis, Curran, Andres & Overstreet, 2013
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Megapera''
Manter, 1934
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Thysanopharynx''
Manter, 1933
*Postporinae
Yamaguti, 1958
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Postporus''
Manter, 1949
*Schistorchiinae
Yamaguti, 1942
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Megacreadium''
Nagaty, 1956
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Neomegacreadium''
Machida & Kuramochi, 1999
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Schistorchis''
Lühe in Herdman, 1906
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Sphincteristomum
Apocreadiidae is a family (biology), 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 hal ...
''
Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961
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Sphincterostoma
Apocreadiidae is a family (biology), 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 hal ...
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Yamaguti, 1937
References
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Trematode families