Apocreadiidae

Family of flukes

Apocreadiidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Plagiorchiida
Suborder:
Apocreadiata
Superfamily:
Apocreadioidea
Family:
Apocreadiidae

Skrjabin, 1942

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.[1]

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:[2]

  • 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
  • Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942

References

  1. ^ Cribb, T.H.; R.A. Bray (1999). "A review of the Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 (Trematoda: Digenea) and description of Australian species". Syst Parasitol. 44 (1): 1–36. doi:10.1023/a:1006197201426. PMID 10619071. S2CID 1981959.
  2. ^ Cribb, Thomas (2011). "Apocreadiidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
Taxon identifiers
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