Heterophyidae
Heterophyidae | |
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Metagonimus yokogawai specimen | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Rhabditophora |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Suborder: | Opisthorchiata |
Family: | Heterophyidae Leiper, 1909[1] |
Genera, subgenera, and species[2] | |
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Heterophyidae is a family of intestinal trematodes in the order Plagiorchiida.
Description: "Tegument covered by spines. Oral sucker not armed or armed by cyrcumoral spines. Pharynx presented. presented. Ventral and genital suckers usually not combined. Cirrus and absent. Two testes located in posterior part of the body. Vitellaria in posterior part of the body."
First intermediate hosts are molluscs of Prosobranchia, second intermediate hosts are fishes. Definite hosts are birds and mammals, including humans.
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Life cycle of Heterophyes heterophyes
Genera[]
- Acanthotrema Travassos, 1928
- Pearson, 1999
- Apophallus Lühe, 1909
- Ascocotyle Looss, 1899
- Centrocestus Looss, 1899
- Cercarioides Witenberg, 1929
- Pearson & Prevot, 1985
- Cryptocotyle Lühe, 1899
- Stafford, 1905
- Galactosomum Looss, 1899
- Haplorchis Looss, 1899
- Chen, 1949
- Heterophyes Cobbold, 1866
- Heterophyopsis Tubangui & Africa, 1938
- Leonov, 1957
- Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1966
- Metagonimus Katsurada, 1912
- Neostictodora Sogandares-Bernal, 1959
- Poche, 1926
- Oshmarin, 1963
- Phocitrema Goto & Ozaki, 1930
- Phocitremoides Martin, 1950
- Pholeter Odhner, 1915
- Procerovum Onji & Nishio, 1916
- Pearson, 2002
- Pseudogalactosoma Yamaguti, 1942
- Yamaguti, 1971
- Pygidiopsis Looss, 1907
- Pygidiopsoides Martin, 1951
- Scaphanocephalus Jägerskiöld, 1903
- Ablasov & Chibichenko, 1960
- Stellantchasmus Onji & Nishio, 1916
- Stictodora Looss, 1899
- Cohn, 1904
- Kulachkova, 1954
References[]
- ^ Leiper, R. T. (1909). London School of Tropical Medicine. "Report of the helminthologist for the six months ending 30th April, 1908". In, Report of the Advisory Committee for the Tropical Diseases Research Fund for the Year 1908 (pp. 35–39). London: Tropical Diseases Research Fund, Advisory Committee.
- ^ "Heterophyidae" (HTML). NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
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