Echinochasmus schwartzi

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Echinochasmus schwartzi
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Platyhelminthes
Class:
Trematoda
Order:
Plagiorchiida
Family:
Echinochasmidae
Genus:
Echinochasmus
Species:
E. schwartzi
Binomial name
Echinochasmus schwartzi
Price, 1931

Echinochasmus schwartzi is a fluke that infects dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus), and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris).[1] It uses Fundulus fish as its intermediate host.[2] Adults are similar to , but differ in features of the oral sucker.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ Ditrich et al., 1996, p. 234; Kinsella, 1988, table 1
  2. ^ Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
  3. ^ Ditrich et al., 1996, p. 234

Literature cited[]

  • Ditrich, O., Scholz, T. and Vargas-Vázquez, J. 1996. Life-cycle of Echinochasmus macrocaudatus n. sp. (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) (subscription required). Systematic Parasitology 33(3):225–235.
  • Kinsella, J.M. 1988. Comparison of helminths of rice rats, Oryzomys palustris, from freshwater and saltwater marshes in Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 55(2):275–280.
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