Apocreadiidae

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
- 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

References

^ 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.
^ Cribb, Thomas (2011). "Apocreadiidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-03-05.

[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.

[WoRMS-2] Cribb, Thomas (2011). "Apocreadiidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2012-03-05.

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