Hypoderaeum conoideum is a species of digenetic trematodes in the family Echinostomatidae.

Hypoderaeum conoideum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Echinostomatidae
Genus: Hypoderaeum
Species:
H. conoideum
Binomial name
Hypoderaeum conoideum
(Block, 1872) Diez, 1909

The known first intermediate hosts of Hypoderaeum conoideum include the freshwater snails Planorbarius corneus, Indoplanorbis exustus, Lymnaea stagnalis, Lymnaea limosa, Radix ovata and Radix rubiginosa.[1]

Other freshwater snail species were capable of being experimentally infected: Lymnaea tumida, Radix peregra and Stagnicola corvus.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Chai, J. Y.; Shin, E. H.; Lee, S. H.; Rim, H. J. (2009). "Foodborne Intestinal Flukes in Southeast Asia". The Korean Journal of Parasitology. 47 (Supplement): S69–102. doi:10.3347/kjp.2009.47.S.S69. PMC 2769220. PMID 19885337..