Brachylaimidae
Sign in to saveBrachylaimidae is a family of parasitic flukes in the sub-class Digenea. Adults are usually found within the digestive tracts and other organs of mammals or birds and have a complex three-stage life cycle.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumPlatyhelminthes
- ClassTrematoda
- OrderDiplostomida
- FamilyBrachylaimidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- Family
- Brachylaimidae
- Collections
- MSB, QM, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Australia, Malaysia, Belgium
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- Parent taxon
- Strigeatida
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Brachylaimidae is a family of parasitic flukes in the sub-class Digenea. Adults are usually found within the digestive tracts and other organs of mammals or birds and have a complex three-stage life cycle.
==Characteristics== The adult body is elongate or occasionally oval or subglobular, sometimes with fine spines. The suckers are well-developed and usually at the anterior end. There is usually a prepharynx, the pharynx is muscular, the oesophagus, if present, is short and the caeca long, terminating near the posterior end. The gonads are posterior to the ventral sucker and the genital pore opens on the ventral surface.
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