Apocreadiidae is a family of parasitic worms in the class Trematoda.
Characteristics Members of the family are characterised by having extensive vitelline (yolk producing) follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in the front half of the body, a rod-shaped excretory vesicle, no cirrus-sac and the genital pore just in front of the ventral sucker or occasionally just behind it.
Genera The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera: Apocreadiinae Skrjabin, 1942 Callohelmis Cribb & Bray, 1999 Choanodera Manter, 1940 Crassicutis Manter, 1936 Dactylotrema Bravo-Hollis & Manter, 1957 Homalometron Stafford, 1904 Marsupioacetabulum Yamaguti, 1952 Microcreadium Simer, 1929 Myzotus Manter, 1940 Neoapocreadium Siddiqi & Cable, 1960 Neomegasolena Siddiqi & Cable, 1960 Pancreadium Manter, 1954 Posterotestis Ostrowski de Nunez, Brugni & Flores, 2003 Procaudotestis Szidat, 1954 Trematobrien Dollfus, 1950 Megaperinae Manter, 1934 Haintestinum Pulis, Curran, Andres & Overstreet, 2013 Megapera Manter, 1934 Thysanopharynx Manter, 1933 Postporinae Yamaguti, 1958 Postporus Manter, 1949 Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942 Megacreadium Nagaty, 1956 Neomegacreadium Machida & Kuramochi, 1999 Schistorchis Lühe in Herdman, 1906 Sphincteristomum Oshmarin, Mamaev & Parukhin, 1961 Sphincterostoma Yamaguti, 1937
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