Prosthogonimus ovatus

Prosthogonimus ovatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Prosthogonimidae
Genus:	Prosthogonimus
Species:	P. ovatus
Binomial name
Prosthogonimus ovatus (Rudolphi, 1803)

Prosthogonimus ovatus is a species of a trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Prosthogonimidae.

Life cycle

The first intermediate hosts of Prosthogonimus ovatus include freshwater snails:

• Anisus spirorbis[1]
• Bithynia leachii[1]
• Bithynia tentaculata[1]
• Planorbarius corneus[1]

The definitive host lives in the oviducts of corn crake Crex crex.

References

1. "Prosthogonimus ovatus", as Bithynia leachei (sic!), accessed July 23, 2011.

External links

• "Prosthogonimus ovatus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).