Schistosomatidae

Schistosomatidae

Taxobox
name = "Schistosomatidae"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Schistsoma mansoni" egg
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Platyhelminthes
classis = Trematoda
subclassis = Digenea
ordo = Strigeatida
familia = Schistosomatidae

Schistosomatidae is a family of digenetic trematodes with complex parasitic life cycles. Immature developmental stages of schistosomes are found in molluscs and adults occur in vertebrates. The best studied group, the blood flukes of the genus "Schistosoma", infect and cause disease in humans. Other genera, infective to non-human vertebrates, can cause mild rashes.

Schistosomatids are dioecious (individuals are of separate sexes) which is exceptional with regards to their phylum, Platyhelminthes, in which most species are hermaphrodidic (individuals possess both male and female reproductive systems).


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