Transversotrema borboleta

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Transversotrema borboleta
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Transversotrematidae
Genus: Transversotrema
Species:
T. borboleta
Binomial name
Transversotrema borboleta
Hunter & Cribb, 2012

Transversotrema borboleta is a species of parasitic flatworms found in chaetodontids and lutjanines on Heron Island and Lizard Island. It might be in fact a species complex. [1]

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References

  1. Hunter, Janet A., and Thomas H. Cribb. "A cryptic complex of species related to Transversotrema licinum Manter, 1970 from fishes of the Indo-West Pacific, including descriptions of ten new species of Transversotrema Witenberg, 1944 (Digenea: Transversotrematidae)." Zootaxa 3176 (2012): 1-44.

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