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wha-a-a-a-at? For the first time in a lot of time, they used the term mind-boggling accurately. I had never ever seen something like this before in a digenean.
by pvaldes 3y ago
wha-a-a-a-at?
For the first time in a lot of time, they used the term mind-boggling accurately. I had never ever seen something like this before in a digenean.
- pvaldes 3y agoWhat worries me is that all is based in a sample of DnA corrupted Digeneans by definition aren't segmented animals. If each "petal" of the flower is an animal, then those are clearly segmented and this is very problematic So either this is not a digenean, or we would need to reclassify an entire class of animals. If this does not have complex chetae and maybe remains of a mandible then is not a polychaete (but we need to take in mind that both could had been dissolved by the preservative). This animals seem to have a species of terminal sucker like digeneans have. But I would thing instead in another kind of animals with suckers that are segmented: Several marine leeches feeding on a mass of digenean spores (each one would be filled with digenean undigested DnA, so beware with spreading the analysis too thin!. Other reasonable possibility IMAO would be a group of leeches producing or incubating a mass of eggs. Leech coccoons are complex structurally and round. Something is very wrong here