Cyclocoelinae
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The Cyclocoelinae are a subfamily of parasitic flatworm
s of the order
Echinostomida
. Their definite hosts are waterfowl
and other (mostly aquatic) birds such as wader
s, where the worms are mainly found in the airways.
Flatworm
The flatworms, known in scientific literature as Platyhelminthes or Plathelminthes are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrate animals...
s of the order
Order (biology)
In scientific classification used in biology, the order is# a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, family, genus, and species, with order fitting in between class and family...
Echinostomida
Echinostomida
The Echinostomida are an order of flatworms, belonging to the large group Digenea.Apart from the suborders listed, the superfamily Notocotyloidea and the family Pachytrematidae are also placed here as more basal taxa incertae sedis.- Life cycle :...
. Their definite hosts are waterfowl
Anseriformes
The order Anseriformes contains about 150 living species of birds in three extant families: the Anhimidae , Anseranatidae , and the Anatidae, which includes over 140 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.All species in the order are highly adapted for an aquatic existence at...
and other (mostly aquatic) birds such as wader
Wader
Waders, called shorebirds in North America , are members of the order Charadriiformes, excluding the more marine web-footed seabird groups. The latter are the skuas , gulls , terns , skimmers , and auks...
s, where the worms are mainly found in the airways.
Genera
- Allopyge Johnston, 1913
- Cyclocoelum Brandes, 1892
- Hyptiasmus Kossack, 1911
- Morishitium Witenberg, 1928
- Neoallopyge Dronen & Blend, 2005
- Neohyptiasmus Kanev, Radev & Fried, 2002
- Prohyptiasmus Witenberg, 1923
- Selfcoelum Dronen, Gardner & Jiménez, 2006
- Skrjabincoelum Kurashvili, 1953