Microphallus piriformes (Odhner, 1905)

Repkin, Egor A., Maltseva, Arina L., Varfolomeeva, Marina A., Aianka, Roman V., Mikhailova, Natalia A. & Granovitch, Andrei I., 2020, Genetic and morphological variation of metacercariae of Microphallus piriformes (Trematoda, Microphallidae): Effects of paraxenia and geographic location, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 11, pp. 235-245 : 238

3.1. Genetic polymorphism in populations of M. piriformes . ITS-1

All analyzed ITS-1 sequences were identical. This supports, on one hand, the unity of M. piriformes as a species and, on the other, it justifies the affiliation of all the samples to the same species. P -distance between sequences of M. piriformes and closely related species M. pygmaeus was 3.75% (12 SNP, 1 indel).