Flukes are divided into Monogenea and Digenea. Monogenea have a posterior holdfast with hooks, clamps, and suckers; Digenea have suckers but never hooks and clamps. Monogenea have only one host in the life cycle, and usually live on gills or skin of fish and amphibians; Digenea have at least two hosts and often three or more, and are named because they have two reproductive states in their life cycle (an adult and intramolluscan phase). From what you now know, the blood fluke Schistosoma would therefore be

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The blood fluke Schistosoma is an endoparasite and Digenean. It has a complex life cycle that involves at least two hosts - a snail intermediate host and a human or mammalian definitive host. It has suckers but no hooks or clamps, which is characteristic of Digeneans.

Flukes Are Divided into Monogenea and Digenea