Biology:Leucochloridium

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Short description: Genus of flukes

Leucochloridium
Leucochloridium paradoxum.jpg
Leucochloridium paradoxum
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Diplostomida
Suborder: Diplostomata
Superfamily: Brachylaimoidea
Family: Leucochloridiidae
Poche, 1907[1]
Genus: Leucochloridium
Carus, 1835
Species

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Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic trematode worms in the order Diplostomida. It Is the sole genus in the family Leucochloridiidae.[2] Members of this genus cause pulsating swellings in the eye-stalks of snails (a phenomenon colloquially called a zombie snail), so as to attract the attention of predatory birds required in the parasites' lifecycle.

Taxonomy

Species

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Species in the genus Leucochloridium include:

  • Leucochloridium caryocatactis (Zeder, 1800) now in genus Urogonimus[3]
  • Leucochloridium fuscostriatum Robinson, 1948 is a junior synonym of L. variae[4]
  • L. fuscum Rietschel, 1970 is a junior synonym of L. perturbatum[5]
  • Leucochloridium heckerti Kagan, 1951 is a junior synonym of L. paradoxum[6]
  • Leucochloridium holostomum (Rudolphi, 1819)
  • Leucochloridium macrostomum (Rudolphi, 1803) is now in the genus Urogonimus, but the name was widely misapplied to L. paradoxum[3]
  • Leucochloridium paradoxum Carus, 1835
  • Leucochloridium perturbatum Pojmańska, 1969 sometimes considered a synonym of L. variae[4][7]
  • Leucochloridium phragmitophila Bykhovskaja-Pavlovskja & Dubinina, 1951
  • Leucochloridium sime Yamaguti, 1935 is likely a synonym of L. perturbatum.[7]
  • L. subtilis Pojmańska, 1969 is a junior synonym of L. perturbatum[5]
  • Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932
  • Leucochloridium vogtianum Baudon, 1881

See also

References

  1. Poche, F. (1907). Einige Bemerkungen zur Nomenklatur der Trematoden. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 31, 124–126.
  2. Carus, C. G. (1835). Beobachtung über einen merkwürdigen schöngefärbten Eingeweidewurm, Leucochloridium paradoxum mihi, und dessen parasitische Erzeugung in einer Landschnecke, Succinea amphibia Drap. Helix putris Linn. Nova Acta Physico-Medica Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino Carolinae Naturae Curiosorum 17(7), 85–100.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Kagan, I.G. (1952). "Revision of the Subfamily Leucochloridiinae Poche, 1907 (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae)". American Midland Naturalist 48 (2): 257–301. doi:10.2307/2422256. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Bakke, T.A. (1982). "The Morphology and Taxonomy of Leucochloridium (L.) variae Mclntosh (Digenea, Leucochloridiidae) from the Nearctic as Revealed by Light and Scanning Electron Microscopy". Zoologica Scripta 11 (2): 87–100. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1982.tb00521.x. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Bakke, T.A. (1978). "Intraspecific variation of adult Leucochloridium sp. (Digenea) from natural and experimental infections". Canadian Journal of Zoology 56 (1): 94–102. doi:10.1139/z78-013. 
  6. Bakke, T. A. (April 1980). "A revision of the family Leucochloridiidae Poche (Digenea) and studies on the morphology of Leucochloridium paradoxum Carus, 1835". Systematic Parasitology 1 (3-4): 189–202. doi:10.1007/BF00009845. 
  7. 7.0 7.1 Nakao, M.; Sasaki, M.; Waki, T.; Iwaki, T.; Morii, Y.; Yanagida, K.; Watanabe, M.; Tsuchitani, Y. et al. (2019). "Distribution records of three species of Leucochloridium (Trematoda: Leucochloridiidae) in Japan, with comments on their microtaxonomy and ecology". Parasitology International 72: 101936. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2019.101936. 

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