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| Family: | Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942 |
Apocreadiidae is afamily of parasitic worms in the classTrematoda.
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]
The World Register of Marine Species lists the followinggenera:[2]
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