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''Liolope'' is a monotypic genus of trematodes, or fluke worms, belonging to the family Liolopidae. The only species is ''Liolope copulans''.
Baba et al. (2011) classified this species in the family Liolopidae, superfamily Diplostomoidea.
Distribution
This species occurs inJapan
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Life cycle
The first intermediate hosts of ''Liolope copulans'' include freshwater snails '' Semisulcospira libertina''.Baba T., Hosoi M., Urabe M., Shimazu T., Tochimoto T. & Hasegawa H. (2011). "''Liolope copulans'' (Trematoda: Digenea: Liolopidae) parasitic in ''Andrias japonicus'' (Amphibia: Caudata: Cryptobranchidae) in Japan: Life cycle and systematic position inferred from morphological and molecular evidence". ''Parasitology International
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'' 60(2): 181–192. . .
The second (experimental) intermediate host include fish ''Nipponocypris sieboldii
''Nipponocypris sieboldii'' is a species of cyprinid in the genus ''Nipponocypris
''Nipponocypris'' is a genus of cyprinid fish containing three extant species, one endemic to Japan, one to South Korea while the third occurs in Japan, Korea an ...
'' and ''Rhynchocypris lagowskii
The Amur minnow or Lagowski's minnow (''Rhynchocypris lagowskii'') is an Asian species of small freshwater cyprinid fish. It is found from the Lena and Amur rivers in the north to the Yangtze
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the lon ...
''.
The final hosts include Japanese giant salamander ''Andrias japonicus''.
References
Digenea Animals described in 1902 {{Parasitic animal-stub