Leucochloridium

Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic trematode worms in the order Diplostomida. It Is the sole genus in the family Leucochloridiidae.^[2] Members of this genus cause pulsating swellings in the eye-stalks of snails (a phenomenon colloquially called a zombie snail), so as to attract the attention of predatory birds required in the parasites' lifecycle.

Leucochloridium
Leucochloridium paradoxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Diplostomida
Suborder:	Diplostomata
Superfamily:	Brachylaimoidea
Family:	Leucochloridiidae Poche, 1907[1]
Genus:	Leucochloridium Carus, 1835
Species
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Taxonomy

Species

A flatworm of the genus Leucochloridium parasitising a snail

Species in the genus Leucochloridium include:

• Leucochloridium caryocatactis (Zeder, 1800) now in genus Urogonimus^[3]
• Leucochloridium fuscostriatum Robinson, 1948 is a junior synonym of L. variae^[4]
• L. fuscum Rietschel, 1970 is a junior synonym of L. perturbatum^[5]
• Leucochloridium heckerti Kagan, 1951 is a junior synonym of L. paradoxum^[6]
• Leucochloridium holostomum (Rudolphi, 1819)
• Leucochloridium macrostomum (Rudolphi, 1803) is now in the genus Urogonimus, but the name was widely misapplied to L. paradoxum^[3]
• Leucochloridium paradoxum Carus, 1835
• Leucochloridium perturbatum Pojmańska, 1969 sometimes considered a synonym of L. variae^[4][7]
• Leucochloridium phragmitophila Bykhovskaja-Pavlovskja & Dubinina, 1951

• Leucochloridium sime Yamaguti, 1935 is likely a synonym of L. perturbatum.^[7]

• L. subtilis Pojmańska, 1969 is a junior synonym of L. perturbatum^[5]
• Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932
• Leucochloridium vogtianum Baudon, 1881

See also

• Aggressive mimicry