Aporocotylidae | |
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Holocentricola spp. (Aporocotylidae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Diplostomida |
Suborder: | Diplostomata |
Superfamily: | Schistosomatoidea |
Family: | Aporocotylidae Odhner, 1912 |
Aporocotylidae is a family of trematodes within the order Diplostomida, which contains species commonly known as fish blood flukes. It contains more than 40 genera, the largest being Cardicola. [1] Species in this family parasite fish in both fresh and marine water.[2]