Biospeedotrema biospeedoi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Subclass:
Digenea
Order:
Plagiorchiida
Suborder:
Opecoelata
Family:
Opecoelidae
Genus:
Biospeedotrema
Species:
B. biospeedoi
Binomial name
Biospeedotrema biospeedoi
Bray et al., 2014

Biospeedotrema biospeedoi 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. Furthermore, it differs from its cogenerates by the shape of its body; its uterine extent is posterior to its testes and its small vitellarium.[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. PMID 24871167.

Further reading

  • Bray, Rodney A., et al. "The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily." Folia parasitologica 63 (2016): 013.
  • Shedko, M. B., S. G. Sokolov, and D. M. Atopkin. "The first record of Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) in fishes from rivers of Primorsky Territory, Russia, with a discussion on its taxonomic position using morphological and molecular data." ПАРАЗИТОЛОГИЯ 49 (2015): 3.


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