Opecoelidae

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Opecoelidae is a family of trematodes. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.[2] It was considered by Bray et al. to belong in the superfamily Opecoeloidea Ozaki, 1925 or the Brachycladioidea Odhner, 1905.[2]

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Opecoelidae
Hamacreadium cribbi
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Suborder: Xiphidiata
Superfamily: Opecoelioidea
Family: Opecoelidae
Ozaki, 1925[1]
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