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Azygiidae is a family of
flatworm Platyhelminthes (from the Greek language, Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") is a Phylum (biology), phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, Segmentation (biology), ...
s belonging to the order
Plagiorchiida Plagiorchiida is a large order of trematodes, synonymous to Echinostomida. They belong to the Digenea, a large subclass of flukes. This order contains relatively few significant parasites of humans. The following families are placed here, ...
. Genera: * '' Azygia'' Looss, 1899 * '' Leuceruthrus'' Marshall & Gilbert, 1905 * '' Otodistomum'' Stafford, 1904 * '' Proterometra'' Horsfall, 1934


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