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Green-banded broodsac

Animal
Leucochloridium paradoxum, the green-banded broodsac, is a parasitic flatworm. Its intermediate hosts are land snails, usually of the genus Succinea. The pulsating, green broodsacs fill the eye stalks of the snail, thereby attracting predation by... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Leucochloridium paradoxum
Class: Trematoda
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Family: Leucochloridiidae
Domain: Eukaryota
Genus: Leucochloridium
Kingdom: Animalia