Caudotestis ventichthysi

Caudotestis ventichthysi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Subclass:	Digenea
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Suborder:	Opecoelata
Family:	Opecoelidae
Genus:	Caudotestis
Species:	C. ventichthysi
Binomial name
	Caudotestis ventichthysi; Bray et al., 2014

Caudotestis ventichthysi 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, what differentiates it from its cogenerates is caecal length; cirrus sac length; its internal seminal vesicle's shape; vitelline extent and arrangement, as well as forebody length and egg-size.^[1]

References

^ 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. PMID 24871167.

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[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. PMID 24871167.

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