Fairfaxia

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Fairfaxia
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Subfamily: Pseudoplagioporinae
Genus: Fairfaxia
Cribb, 1989 [1]

Fairfaxia is a genus of trematodes in the family Opecoelidae.

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Cribb, T. H. (1989). Fairfaxia lethrini, gen. et sp. nov (Digenea, Opecoelidae), from Lethrinus chrysostomus Richardson from the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Zoology, 37(1), 67–70.
  2. Hassanine, R. M. & Gibson, D. I. (2005). Trematodes from Red Sea fishes: Neohypocreadium aegyptense n. sp. (Lepocreadiidae), Fairfaxia cribbi n. sp. and Macvicaria chrysophrys (Nagaty & Abdel-Aal, 1969) (Opecoelidae). Systematic Parasitology, 62(3), 199–207.