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Apocreadiidae
Family of flukes From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
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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
- 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
 
 
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References
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