:Biospeedotrema jolliveti
{{Short description|Species of fluke}}
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{{Taxobox
| regnum = Animalia
| phylum = Platyhelminthes
| classis = Trematoda
| subclassis = Digenea
| ordo = Plagiorchiida
| subordo = Opecoelata
| familia = Opecoelidae
| genus = Biospeedotrema
| species = B. jolliveti
| binomial = Biospeedotrema jolliveti
| binomial_authority = Bray et al., 2014
}}
Biospeedotrema jolliveti is a species of trematodes inhabiting hydrothermal vent fishes (particularly Ventichthys biospeedoi) 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 can be differentiated by vitelline fields which extend slightly into its post-testicular region; its intestinal bifurcation is dorsal to its ventral sucker; its genital pore is somewhat submedian or median; its cirrus sac is short and the caeca are large and overlap the testes.{{cite journal|last1=Bray|first1=R. A.|last2=Waeschenbach|first2=A.|last3=Dyal|first3=P.|last4=Littlewood|first4=D. T.|last5=Morand|first5=S.|title=New digeneans (Opecoelidae) from hydrothermal vent fishes in the south eastern Pacific Ocean, including one new genus and five new species|journal=Zootaxa|volume=3768|issue=1|year=2014|pages=73–87|issn=1175-5334|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.3768.1.5|pmid=24871167}}
References
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Further reading
- Bray, Rodney A., et al. "The molecular phylogeny of the digenean family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 and the value of morphological characters, with the erection of a new subfamily." Folia parasitologica 63 (2016): 013.
- Shedko, M. B., S. G. Sokolov, and D. M. Atopkin. "The first record of Dimerosaccus oncorhynchi (Trematoda: Opecoelidae) in fishes from rivers of Primorsky Territory, Russia, with a discussion on its taxonomic position using morphological and molecular data." ПАРАЗИТОЛОГИЯ 49 (2015): 3.
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Category:Parasitic helminths of fish
Category:Animals described in 2014
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