Acrobothriidae is a family of
flatworms
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...
belonging to the order
Spathebothriidea
Spathebothriidea is an order of Cestoda (tapeworms). Members of this order are gut parasites
Parasitism is a Symbiosis, close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the Host ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Bothrimonus''
Duvernoy, 1842
* ''
Cyathocephalus''
Kessler, 1868
* ''
Didymobothrium''
Nybelin, 1922
* ''
Diplocotyle''
Diesing, 1850
* ''
Diplocotyle''
Krabbe, 1874
References
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Platyhelminthes