Hypoderaeum conoideum
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Hypoderaeum conoideum is a species of digenetic
Digenea
Digenea is a subclass within the Platyhelminthes consisting of parasitic flatworms with a syncytial tegument and, usually, two suckers, one ventral and one oral. Adults are particularly common in the digestive tract, but occur throughout the organ systems of all classes of vertebrates...

 trematode in the family Echinostomatidae.

The known first intermediate host of Hypoderaeum conoideum include freshwater snails Planorbarius corneus
Planorbarius corneus
Planorbarius corneus, common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.The shell of this species...

, Indoplanorbis exustus
Indoplanorbis exustus
Indoplanorbis exustus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails. The species is the sole member of its genus and is widely distributed across the tropics. It serves as an important intermediate host for...

, Lymnaea stagnalis
Lymnaea stagnalis
Lymnaea stagnalis, better known as the great pond snail, is a species of large air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae.-Distribution:The distribution of this species is Holarctic...

, Lymnaea limosa, Radix ovata and Radix rubiginosa
Radix rubiginosa
Radix rubiginosa is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.This species is sometimes treated as a subspecies of Radix auricularia.-Distribution:...

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Experimanetally infected were also other freshwater snails: Lymnaea tumida, Radix peregra
Radix peregra
Radix peregra, previously known as Lymnaea peregra or Lymnaea pereger, is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails....

and Stagnicola corvus
Stagnicola corvus
Stagnicola corvus is a species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Lymnaeidae, the pond snails.-Distribution:...

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