''Plagioporus skrjabini'' is a
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 ...
of a
trematode
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
Opecoelidae.
Hosts
Hosts of ''Plagioporus skrjabini'' include:
* Snail ''
Theodoxus fluviatilis
''Theodoxus fluviatilis'', common name the river nerite, is a species of small freshwater and brackish water snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Neritidae, the nerites.Neubauer, Thomas A. (2014). ''T ...
'' serves as the first
intermediate host
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[ .]
*
Sand hopper
Talitridae is a family of amphipods. Terrestrial species are often referred to as landhoppers and beach dwellers are called sandhoppers or sand fleas. The name sand flea is misleading, though, because these talitrid amphipods are not siphonapter ...
s are natural additional hosts: ''
Pontogammarus robustoides'', ''
Pontogammarus crassus'', ''
Dikerogammarus villosus'', ''
Dikerogammarus haemobaphes'', ''
Chaetogammarus ischnus'' and ''
Amathillina cristata''.
* Definitive hosts are ''
Cobitis taenia
The spined loach (''Cobitis taenia'') is a common freshwater fish in Europe. It is sometimes known as spotted weather loach, not to be confused with the "typical" weather loaches of the genus ''Misgurnus''. This is the type species of the spiny l ...
'',
and
gobies: toad goby (''
Mesogobius batrachocephalus
''Mesogobius batrachocephalus'', the knout goby or toad goby, is one of the species of gobiid fish native to the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov basins. It lives in estuaries and brackish water lagoons, occasionally in fresh waters, such as the c ...
''),
bighead goby (''
Ponticola kessleri)''
and monkey goby (''
Neogobius fluviatilis'').
References
Animals described in 1951
Plagiorchiida
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