Maritrema prosthometra

Maritrema prosthometra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Microphallidae
Genus: Maritrema
Species: M. prosthometra
Binomial name
Maritrema prosthometra
Deblock and Heard, 1969

Maritrema prosthometra is a parasitic fluke from North America. It was first described in 1969 from the intestine of the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) in eastern North America.[1] Later, it was also found in the small intestine of 5% of a sample of marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) collected in a salt marsh at Cedar Key, Florida,[2] where it used the fiddler crab Uca pigilator as an intermediate host.[3]

References

  1. Deblock and Heard, 1969, p. 416
  2. Kinsella, 1988, table 1
  3. Kinsella, 1988, p. 277

Literature cited

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