Diplozoidae is a
family
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of
monogenea
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ns in the
order
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Mazocraeidea.
[WoRMS (2018). Diplozoidae Palombi, 1949. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=119241 on 2018-09-08] In all species of this family, the bodies of the two
hermaphroditic members of a couple are permanently fused for life. These monogeneans are parasitic on the
gills of freshwater fish.
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Genera
*'' Afrodiplozoon'' Khotenovsky, 1981[Khotenovsky, I. A. (1981). Systematics and phylogeny of the families Diplozoidae and Discocotylidae (Monogenea). ''Parazitologyia'', 30, 166–175.]
*'' Diplozoon'' von Nordmann, 1832[von Nordmann, A. (1832). ''Mikrographische Beiträge zur Naturgeschichite der wirbellosen Thiere''. Berlin: G. Reimer.] Example of species: '' Diplozoon paradoxum''
*'' Neodiplozoon'' Tripathi, 1960[Tripathi, Y. R. (1960). Change of name of ''Diplotrema barbi'' Tripathi, 1959. Indian Journal of Helminthology, 11(1/2), 116.]
*'' Paradiplozoon'' Akhmerov, 1974.[Akhmerov, A. K. (1974). New species of ''Diplozoon'' from the Amur River fishes. ''Trudy Gel'mintologicheskoi Laboratorii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR'', 24, 5–19.] Example of species: '' Paradiplozoon hemiculteri'', '' Paradiplozoon yunnanense''.
References
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Polyopisthocotylea
Platyhelminthes families
Parasites of fish