Galactosomum is a genus of flukes in the family Heterophyidae. There are currently 28 recognised species within the genus. They mainly infect aquatic birds, but often infest fish as larvae. Three species are known to use marine mammals as hosts.
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Galactosomum is a genus of flukes in the family Heterophyidae. There are currently 28 recognised species within the genus. They mainly infect aquatic birds, but often infest fish as larvae. Three species are known to use marine mammals as hosts.
==Description== The excised spherical metacercaria is 2.7–4.9 mm long. Generally, only one is found per fish.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).