Plagiorchiidae

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Plagiorchiidae
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Plagiorchiidae

Lühe, 1901 [1]
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Enodiotrematinae Baer, 1924

Plagiorchiidae is a family of parasitic trematodes (flukes) in the order Plagiorchiida.

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