Trematoda
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![]() Botulus microporus, a giant digenean parasite from the intestine of a lancetfish
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Aspidogastrea Digenea |
Trematoda (more commonly called Flukes) is the name for a number of species of flatworms. All of them have one or more suckers. They live in the organs of their host animal. Usually the hosts are vertebrates.