Opecoelidae

Opecoelidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: Digenea
Order: Plagiorchiida
Suborder: Opecoelata
Family: Opecoelidae
Ozaki, 1925

Opecoelidae is a family of flatworm. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.[1] It is now considered to belong in the superfamily Opecoeloidea Ozaki, 1925 or the Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905.[1]

Partial list of genera

References

  1. 1 2 Bray, Rodney A.; Cribb, Thomas H.; Littlewood, D. Timothy J.; Waeschenbach, Andrea (2016). "The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily". Folia Parasitologica. 63. doi:10.14411/fp.2016.013. ISSN 0015-5683.
  2. Saad-Fares, A.; Maillard, C. (2016). "Trématodes des poissons des côtes du Liban. I: Pseudopycnadena fischthali n.g. n.sp. (Trematoda Opistholebetidae) parasite des Diplodus (Teleostei) des côtes du Liban". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 61 (3): 303–309. doi:10.1051/parasite/1986613303. ISSN 0003-4150.


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