Apocreadiidae
Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics
Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline 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.Genera
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:- 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