Echinochasmus schwartzi

Echinochasmus schwartzi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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 Echinochasmus microcaudatus, but differ in features of the oral sucker.[3]

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.