Paradiplozoon hemiculteri

Paradiplozoon hemiculteri
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Monogenea
Order:	Mazocraeidea
Family:	Diplozoidae
Genus:	Paradiplozoon
Species:	P. hemiculteri
Binomial name
Paradiplozoon hemiculteri Ling, 1973

Paradiplozoon hemiculteri is a species of monogenean of the family Diplozoidae. ^{[1] [2]} As in all species of this family, the bodies of the two hermaphroditic members of a couple are permanently fused for life.

The clamp in the haptor of Paradiplozoon hemiculteri

This monogenean is a parasite of the gills of the sharpbelly Hemiculter leucisculus in China. According to Jirsová et al., ^[1] P. hemiculteri is the only diplozoid found on the gills of H. leucisculus to date.

References

1. Jirsová, Dagmar; Ding, Xuejuan; Civáňová, Kristína; Jirounková, Eliška; Ilgová, Jana; Koubková, Božena; Kašný, Martin; Gelnar, Milan (2018). "Redescription of Paradiplozoon hemiculteri (Monogenea, Diplozoidae) from the type host Hemiculter leucisculus, with neotype designation". Parasite. 25: 4. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018004. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   5806537 . PMID   29424339.
2. Khotenovsky IA. 1985. Suborder Discocotylinea Bychowsky, 1957. In: Bauer ON editor. Key to Parasites of Freshwater Fish. Fauna of the USSR. Izdatel’stvo’ Nauka, Leningrad. p. 354–387.