Leucochloridium

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Leucochloridium
Leucochloridium paradoxum.jpg
Leucochloridium paradoxum
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Order: Diplostomida
Suborder:
Superfamily: Brachylaimoidea
Family: Leucochloridiidae
Poche, 1907[1]
Genus: Leucochloridium
Carus, 1835
Species

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Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic trematode worms in the order Diplostomida. It Is the sole genus in the family Leucochloridiidae.[2] Members of this genus cause pulsating swellings in the eye-stalks of snails (a phenomenon colloquially called a zombie snail), so as to attract the attention of predatory birds required in the parasites' lifecycle.

Taxonomy[]

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A flatworm of the genus Leucochloridium parasitising a snail

Species in the genus Leucochloridium include:

Synonyms[]

  • Leucochloridium macrostomum is a synonym for (Rudolphi, 1802)

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References[]

  1. ^ Poche, F. (1907). Einige Bemerkungen zur Nomenklatur der Trematoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 124–126.
  2. ^ Carus, C. G. (1835). Beobachtung über einen merkwürdigen schöngefärbten Eingeweidewurm, Leucochloridium paradoxum mihi, und dessen parasitische Erzeugung in einer Landschnecke, Succinea amphibia Drap. Helix putris Linn. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum 17(7), 85–100.
  3. ^ Kagan, I.G. (1952). "Revision of the Subfamily Leucochloridiinae Poche, 1907 (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae)". American Midland Naturalist. 48 (2): 257. doi:10.2307/2422256.
  4. ^ a b Bakke, T.A. (1982). "The Morphology and Taxonomy of Leucochloridium (L.) variae Mclntosh (Digenea, Leucochloridiidae) from the Nearctic as Revealed by Light and Scanning Electron Microscopy". Zoologica Scripta. 11 (2): 87–100. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00521.x.

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