Apocreadiidae is a

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of parasitic worms in the class

Trematoda Trematoda is a class of flatworms known 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 usually a snail. The definitive h ...

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

{{Taxonbar, from=Q4780131 Plagiorchiida Trematode families