Paradiplozoon hemiculteri
| Paradiplozoon hemiculteri | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Monogenea |
| Order: | Mazocraeidea |
| Family: | Diplozoidae |
| Genus: | Paradiplozoon |
| Species: | P. hemiculteri
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| Binomial name | |
| Paradiplozoon hemiculteri Ling, 1973
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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.
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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[edit]
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
