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
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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
- Postporinae Yamaguti, 1958
- Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942
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