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Species of fluke

Choanocotyle elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: Digenea
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Choanocotylidae
Genus: Choanocotyle
Species: C. elegans
Binomial name
Choanocotyle elegans
Jue Sue, 1998

Choanocotyle elegans is a species of flatworms in the family Choanocotylidae. It infects Australian freshwater turtles. It was described from the small intestine of Chelodina expansa and Emydura macquarii.

References

  1. ^ Sue Jue, Lindsay (September 1998). "Description and life-cycle of two new species of Choanocotyle n. g. (Trematoda: Plagiorchiida), parasites of Australian freshwater turtles, and the erection of the family Choanocotylidae". Systematic Parasitology. 41 (1): 47–61. doi:10.1023/A:1006074125118. S2CID 26915071.

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