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Gymnophalloides heardi

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Species of fluke

Gymnophalloides heardi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Gymnophallidae
Genus: Gymnophalloides
Species: G. heardi
Binomial name
Gymnophalloides heardi
Ching, 1995

Gymnophalloides heardi is a parasitic fluke that infects the marsh rice rat Oryzomys palustris and the clapper rail Rallus crepitans. Its second intermediate host is the snail Melampus bidentatus (in genus Melampus). It is smaller than the two other species of Gymnophalloides, G. seoi and G. tokiensis.

References

  1. Ching, 1995, pp. 924, 926

Literature cited

Taxon identifiers
Gymnophalloides heardi
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