Apocreadiidae is a
family
Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...
of parasitic worms in the class
Trematoda
Trematoda is a Class (biology), class of flatworms known as flukes. They are obligate parasite, obligate internal Parasitism, parasites with a complex biological life cycle, life cycle requiring at least two Host_(biology), hosts. The intermedia ...
.
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 ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
:
*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''
Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961
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Sphincterostoma''
Yamaguti, 1937
References
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Plagiorchiida
Trematode families