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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of trematodes, of the order Heterocotylea, having the posterior sucker usually small, no anterior suckers, and the common genital pore median. It includes the genera Monocotyle, Calicotyle, and Pseudocotyle, parasites of sharks and rays.

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