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Mecynostomidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Xenacoelomorpha
Order:	Acoela
Superfamily:	Aberrantospermata
Family:	Mecynostomidae Dörjes, 1968
Genera
Childia Graff, 1910 Eumecynostomum Faubel & Regier, 1983 Limnoposthia Faubel & Kolasa, 1978 Mecynostomum Beneden, 1870 Neomecynostomum Faubel & Regier, 1983 Paedomecynostomum Dörjes, 1968 Paramecynostomum Dörjes, 1968 Pelochildia Faubel & Warwick, 2005 Philomecynostomum Dörjes, 1968 Postmecynostomum Dörjes, 1968 Pseudmecynostomum Dörjes, 1968 Stylomecynostomum Hooge & Tyler, 2003
Synonyms
Childiidae Dörjes, 1968

Mecynostomidae is a family of acoels.

• Eumecynostomum altitudi Faubel & Regier, 1983
• Eumecynostomum asterium Hooge & Tyler, 2003
• Eumecynostomum bathycolum (Westblad, 1948)
• Eumecynostomum boreale (Faubel, 1977)
• Eumecynostomum evelinae (Marcus, 1948)
• Eumecynostomum flavescens (Dörjes, 1968)
• Eumecynostomum fragilis (Dörjes, 1968)
• Eumecynostomum juistensis (Dörjes, 1968)
• Eumecynostomum luridum Kozloff, 2000
• Eumecynostomum macrobursalium (Westblad, 1946)
• Eumecynostomum maritimum (Dörjes, 1968)
• Eumecynostomum pallidum (Beklemischev, 1915)
• Eumecynostomum papillosum (Faubel, 1974)
• Eumecynostomum tardum (Ehlers & Dörjes, 1979)
• Eumecynostomum westbladi (Dörjes, 1968)
• Limnoposthia polonica (Kolasa & Faubel, 1974)
• Mecynostomum auritum (Schultze. 1851)
• Mecynostomum caudatum (Uljanin, 1870)
• Mecynostomum filiferum Ax, 1963
• Mecynostomum haplovarium Dörjes 1968
• Mecynostomum predatum Faubel 1976
• Mecynostomum sanguineum (Beklemischev, 1915)
• Mecynostomum torquens Kozloff 2000
• Neomecynostomum granulum (Dörjes, 1968)
• Paramecynostomum carchedonium Kozloff, 1998
• Paramecynostomum diversicolor (Ørsted, 1845)
• Philomecynostomum lapillum Dörjes, 1968
• Postmecynostomum glandulosum (Westblad, 1946)
• Postmecynostomum pictum Dörjes, 1968
• Stylomecynostomum bodegensis Hooge & Tyler, 2003