''Dicrocoelium hospes'' is a species of
flatworms
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek πλατύ, ''platy'', meaning "flat" and ἕλμινς (root: ἑλμινθ-), ''helminth-'', meaning "worm") are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegment ...
belonging to the family
Dicrocoeliidae
Dicrocoeliidae is a family of flatworms belonging to the order Plagiorchiida.
Genera
Genera:
* '' Allocorrigia'' Turner & Corkum, 1977
* '' Athesmia'' Looss, 1899
* '' Brachydistomum '' , 1944
* '' Brachylecithum'' Shtrom, 1940
* '' Brodenia'' Ge ...
.
The species may cause the disease
dicrocoeliasis
''Dicrocoelium dendriticum'', the lancet liver fluke, is a parasite fluke that tends to live in cattle or other grazing mammals.
History of discovery
Much of what is presently known about ''Dicrocoelium dendriticum'' is the result of the wor ...
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References
Plagiorchiida
Animals described in 1907
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