#veneriserva — Public Fediverse posts

Parasite of the Day: Veneriserva pygoclava
http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2024/03/veneriserva-pygoclava.html

Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13127-023-00633-8

"over the course of its #evolution, #Veneriserva has ended up with a body plan which is very similar to that of #tapeworms... This 'attachment organ + loads of gonads' type of body plan that they have both independently evolved is also found in other internal #parasites."