''Dimerosaccus'' is a
genus
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of
trematodes
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is usually a snail. The definitive host ...
in the
family
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Opecoelidae
Opecoelidae is a family of trematodes. It is the largest digenean family with over 90 genera and nearly 900 species, almost solely found in marine and freshwater teleost fishes.Bray, Rodney A., Cribb, Thomas H., Littlewood, D. Timothy J. & Waesch ...
. It consists of only one
species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
, ''Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi'' (Eguchi, 1931) Shimazu, 1980.
[ It has been synonymised with ''Allocreadium oncorhynchi'' Eguchi, 1931,][ ''Plagioporus honshuensis'' Moravec & Nagasawa, 1998,][Moravec, F. & Nagasawa, K. (1998). Helminth parasites of the rare endemic catfish, ''Liobagrus reini'', in Japan. ''Folia Parasitologica'', 45, 283–294.] and ''P. oncorhynchi'' (Eguchi, 1931) Peters, 1957.[Peters, L. E. (1957). An analysis of the trematode genus ''Allocreadium'' Looss with the description of ''Allocreadium neotenicum'' sp. nov. from water beetles. ''Journal of Parasitology'', 43, 136–142.]
References
Opecoelidae
Plagiorchiida genera
Monotypic protostome genera
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