''Paradiplozoon hemiculteri'' is a species of
monogenean of the family
Diplozoidae
Diplozoidae is a family of monogeneans in the order
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.
[ ][Khotenovsky IA. 1985. Suborder Discocotylinea Bychowsky, 1957. In: Bauer ON editor. Key to Parasites of Freshwater Fish. Fauna of the USSR. Izdatel’stvo’ Nauka, Leningrad. p. 354–387.] As in all species of this family, the bodies of the two hermaphroditic members of a couple are permanently fused for life.
This monogenean is a
parasite of the
gills of the sharpbelly ''
Hemiculter leucisculus
The sharpbelly or wild carp, sharpbelly, or common sawbelly (''Hemiculter leucisculus''), is a tropical freshwater and brackish water fish belonging to the Cultrinae subfamily of the family Cyprinidae. It originates in large streams and reserv ...
'' in
China
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. According to Jirsová et al.,
''P. hemiculteri'' is the only diplozoid found on the gills of ''H. leucisculus'' to date.
References
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Polyopisthocotylea
Animals described in 1973