Leucochloridium

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Kingdom Animalia Scientific name Leucochloridium Higher classification Leucochloridiidae Order Strigeidida		Family Leucochloridiidae Phylum Platyhelminthes Rank Genus

Lower classifications Green-banded broodsac, Brown-banded broodsac

Leucochloridium paradoxum in an amber snail

Leucochloridium is a genus of parasitic worms called broodsacs.

Species in the genus Leucochloridium include:

Leucochloridium caryocatactis (Zeder, 1800)

Leucochloridium fuscostriatum Robinson, 1948

Leucochloridium holostomum (Rudolphi, 1819)

Leucochloridium melospizae

Leucochloridium paradoxum Carus, 1835

Leucochloridium perturbatum Pojmanska, 1969

Leucochloridium phragmitophila Bykhovskaja-Pavlovskja & Dubinina, 1951

Leucochloridium variae McIntosh, 1932

Leucochloridium vogtianum Baudon, 1881

Synonyms:

Leucochloridium macrostomum is a synonym for Urogonimus macrostomus (Rudolphi, 1802)

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