Leucochloridium

Leucochloridium
	Leucochloridium paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Order:	Diplostomida
Suborder:
Superfamily:	Brachylaimoidea
Family:	Leucochloridiidae; Poche, 1907
Genus:	Leucochloridium; Carus, 1835
Species
	See text

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[]

Species[]

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A flatworm of the genus Leucochloridium parasitising a snail

Species in the genus Leucochloridium include:

(Zeder, 1800) now in genus ^[3]
Robinson, 1948 synonymised with L. variae^[4]
(Rudolphi, 1819)
Leucochloridium paradoxum Carus, 1835
Leucochloridium perturbatum Pojmanska, 1969 synonymised with L. variae^[4]
Bykhovskaja-Pavlovskja & Dubinina, 1951
Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932
Baudon, 1881

Synonyms[]

Leucochloridium macrostomum is a synonym for (Rudolphi, 1802)

References[]

^ Poche, F. (1907). Einige Bemerkungen zur Nomenklatur der Trematoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 124–126.
^ 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.
^ Kagan, I.G. (1952). "Revision of the Subfamily Leucochloridiinae Poche, 1907 (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae)". American Midland Naturalist. 48 (2): 257. doi:10.2307/2422256.
^ ^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.

External links[]

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[I-1] Poche, F. (1907). Einige Bemerkungen zur Nomenklatur der Trematoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 124–126.

[II-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.

[Kagan1952-3] Kagan, I.G. (1952). "Revision of the Subfamily Leucochloridiinae Poche, 1907 (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae)". American Midland Naturalist. 48 (2): 257. doi:10.2307/2422256.

[Bakke1982-4] 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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