Biology:Prosthogonimus ovatus

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Short description: Species of fluke

Prosthogonimus ovatus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Prosthogonimidae
Genus: Prosthogonimus
Species:
P. ovatus
Binomial name
Prosthogonimus ovatus
(Rudolphi, 1803)

Prosthogonimus ovatus is a species of a trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Prosthogonimidae.

Life cycle

The first intermediate hosts of Prosthogonimus ovatus include freshwater snails:

The definitive host lives in the oviducts of corn crake Crex crex.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Prosthogonimus ovatus", as Bithynia leachei (sic!), accessed July 23, 2011.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2912581 entry