Apocreadiidae Explained

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

Notes and References

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 . 10.1023/a:1006197201426. 10619071. 1981959 .
2. Cribb, Thomas . 2011 . Apocreadiidae . 108434 . 2012-03-05 .