Apocreadiidae
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Opisthorchiida |
| Suborder: | Opisthorchiata |
| Superfamily: | Opisthorchioidea |
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Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 |
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Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic marine flukes in the class Trematoda.
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.
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:
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