| Schistosoma ovuncatum | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Strigeidida |
| Family: | Schistosomatidae |
| Genus: | Schistosoma |
| Species: | S. ovuncatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Schistosoma ovuncatum 2002[1] |
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Schistosoma ovuncatum is a schistozome parasite, first described in 2002. Its recognition as a new species only occurred when zoologists were re examining specimens originally described in 1984[1]
The species was described from material collected in Chiang Mai Province, northwest Thailand. The name is derived from the shape of the egg (ovum = egg + uncatus hooked). The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.