Plagioporus skrjabini

Plagioporus skrjabini
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Opecoelidae
Genus:	Plagioporus
Species:	P. skrjabini
Binomial name
Plagioporus skrjabini Kowal, 1951

Plagioporus skrjabini is a species of a trematode in the family Opecoelidae.[1]

Hosts

Hosts of Plagioporus skrjabini include:

• Snail Theodoxus fluviatilis serves as the first intermediate host[1]
• Sand hoppers are natural additional hosts: Pontogammarus robustoides, Pontogammarus crassus, Dikerogammarus villosus, Dikerogammarus haemobaphes, Chaetogammarus ischnus and Amathillina cristata.[1]
• Definitive hosts are Cobitis taenia,[2] and gobies: toad goby (Mesogobius batrachocephalus),[2] bighead goby (Ponticola kessleri)[1] and monkey goby (Neogobius fluviatilis).[1][2]

References

1. (in Russian) Chernogorenko, M. I.; Komarovova, T. I.; Kurandina, D. P. (1978). "Life cycle of the trematode, Plagioporus skrjabini Kowal, 1951 (Allocreadiata, Opecoelidae)". Parazitologiia (in Russian). 12 (6): 479–486. PMID 733319..
2. Zhokhov, A. E.; Molodozhnikova, N. M.; Pugacheva, M. N. (2006). "Dispersal of invading trematodes Nicolla skrjabini (Iwanitzky, 1928) and Plagioporus skrjabini Kowal, 1951 (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) in the Volga". Russian Journal of Ecology. 37 (5): 363. Bibcode:2006RuJEc..37..363Z. doi:10.1134/S1067413606050110. S2CID 32524038.