Hypoderaeum conoideum
Species of fluke
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Hypoderaeum conoideum is a species of digenetic trematodes in the family Echinostomatidae.
| Hypoderaeum conoideum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| 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]
