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Gyrodactylus elegans

species of worm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 17, 2021
Entity authorityQ5035832 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gyrodactylus elegans is a species of monogenean parasitic flatworms in the family Gyrodactylidae.

It is reported parasiting the golden shiner (Notemigonus crysoleucas) in the wild as well as the goldfish (Carassius auratus) in aquaria.

References

Ueber die Entwicklung von Gyrodactylus elegans v. Nrdm.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Gyrodactylus elegans” is species of worm. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Gyrodactylus, elegans and species, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current 43-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Gyrodactylus, elegans and species is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “species of worm” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 17, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q5035832. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Current terminology should not be projected backward without checking the classification used when the underlying evidence was created. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gyrodactylus elegans” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.