Biospeedotrema parajolliveti

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Biospeedotrema parajolliveti
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Opecoelidae
Genus: Biospeedotrema
Species:
B. parajolliveti
Binomial name
Biospeedotrema parajolliveti
Bray et al., 2014

Biospeedotrema parajolliveti is a species of trematodes inhabiting hydrothermal vent fishes (particularly Thermichthys hollisi ) in the south eastern Pacific Ocean. It can be distinguished from its family by its symmetrical testicular configuration; its uterus passing between the testes. [1]

References

  1. Bray, R. A.; Waeschenbach, A.; Dyal, P.; Littlewood, D. T.; Morand, S. (2014). "New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species". Zootaxa . 3768 (1): 73–87. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5. ISSN   1175-5334. PMID   24871167.