Apocreadiidae is a
family of parasitic worms in the class
Trematoda.
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
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Cribb & Bray, 1999
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Choanodera''
Manter, 1940
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Crassicutis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Manter, 1936
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Dactylotrema''
Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957
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Homalometron
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Stafford, 1904
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Marsupioacetabulum''
Yamaguti, 1952
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Microcreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Simer, 1929
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Myzotus''
Manter, 1940
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Neoapocreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Neomegasolena
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Siddiqi & Cable, 1960
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Pancreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Manter, 1954
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Posterotestis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003
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Procaudotestis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Szidat, 1954
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Trematobrien
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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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
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Manter, 1949
*Schistorchiinae
Yamaguti, 1942
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Megacreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Nagaty, 1956
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Neomegacreadium
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Machida & Kuramochi, 1999
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Schistorchis
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Lühe in Herdman, 1906
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Sphincteristomum
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961
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Sphincterostoma
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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 ro ...
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Yamaguti, 1937
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4780131
Plagiorchiida
Trematode families