| Opecoelidae | |
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| Hamacreadium cribbi | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Suborder: | Xiphidiata |
| Superfamily: | Opecoelioidea |
| Family: | Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925[1] |
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]
- ^ Ozaki, Y. (1925). Preliminary notes on a trematode with anus. Journal of Parasitology 12, 51–53.
- ^ a b Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H., Littlewood, D. Timothy J. & Waeschenbach, Andrea (2016). The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily. Folia Parasitologica, 63, 1–13.