Biospeedotrema parajolliveti

Biospeedotrema parajolliveti is a species of trematodes inhabiting hydrothermal vent fishes (particularly Thermichthys hollisi) in the south eastern Pacific Ocean. It can be distinguished from its family by its symmetrical testicular configuration; its uterus passing between the testes. Furthermore, it differs from Biospeedotrema jolliveti by being squat; wider than long; its tegument being wrinkled; its lobate testes, and the caeca "only just reach to the testes".[1]

Biospeedotrema parajolliveti
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B. parajolliveti
Binomial name
Biospeedotrema parajolliveti
Bray et al., 2014

References

  1. Bray, R. A.; Waeschenbach, A.; Dyal, P.; Littlewood, D. T.; Morand, S. (2014). "New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species". Zootaxa. 3768 (1): 73–87. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24871167.


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