Hypoderaeum conoideum

Hypoderaeum conoideum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Echinostomida
Suborder: Echinostomata
Family: Echinostomatidae
Genus: Hypoderaeum
Species: H. conoideum
Binomial name
Hypoderaeum conoideum
(Block, 1872) Diez, 1909

Hypoderaeum conoideum is a species of digenetic trematode in the family Echinostomatidae.

The known first intermediate host of Hypoderaeum conoideum include freshwater snails Planorbarius corneus, Indoplanorbis exustus, Lymnaea stagnalis, Lymnaea limosa, Radix ovata and Radix rubiginosa.[1]

Experimanetally infected were also other freshwater snails: Lymnaea tumida, Radix peregra and Stagnicola corvus.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Chai J.-Y., Shin E.-H., Lee S.-H. & Rim H.-J. (2009). "Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia". The Korean Journal of Parasitology 47(Supplement): 69–102. doi:10.3347/kjp.2009.47.S.S69, PMC PMC2769220.