''Prosthogonimus ovatus'' is a species 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 ...
s, or fluke worms, in the family
Prosthogonimidae.
Life cycle
The first intermediate hosts of ''Prosthogonimus ovatus'' include freshwater snails:
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Anisus spirorbis''
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Bithynia leachii
''Bithynia leachii'' is species of small freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic prosobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Bithyniidae.
Distribution
It is a Palearctic species found in North Africa and Europe to East Siberia.
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["''Prosthogonimus ovatus''"](_blank)
as ''Bithynia leachei'' (sic!), accessed July 23, 2011.
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Bithynia tentaculata
''Bithynia tentaculata'', common names the mud bithynia or common bithynia, or faucet snailKipp R. M. & Benson A. (2008). ''Bithynia tentaculata''. USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database, Gainesville, FL. https://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/Fac ...
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Planorbarius corneus
''Planorbarius corneus'', common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sin ...
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The definitive host lives in the oviducts of
corn crake ''Crex crex''.
References
External links
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Plagiorchiida
Taxa named by Karl Rudolphi
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