Maritrema
| Maritrema | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Microphallidae |
| Genus: | Maritrema Nikoll, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907 | |
| Species | |
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Maritrema is a genus of flukes in the family Microphallidae, although some have suggested its placement in the separate family Maritrematidae.[1] It was first described by Nikoll in 1907 from birds in Britain.[2] Species of the genus usually infect birds, but several have switched hosts and are found in mammals, such as the marsh rice rat.[3] Several species use the fiddler crab Uca pigilator as an intermediate host.[4]
Species include:
- Maritrema acadiae (Swales, 1933)[5]
- Maritrema arenaria Hadley and Castle, 1940[6]
- Maritrema bonaerensis Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997[7]
- Maritrema carpathica Matskasi, 1984[8]
- Maritrema chiriacae Deblock, 1975[5]
- Maritrema feliui Gracenea, Montoliu and Deblock, 1993[8]
- Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema heardi (Kinsella and Deblock, 1994)[6]
- Maritrema humile Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema lepidum Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema majestova Ke, 1976[5]
- Maritrema neomi Tkoch, 1998[6]
- Maritrema oocysta Lebour, 1907[6]
- Maritrema paracadiae Ching, 1974[5]
- Maritrema prosthometra Deblock and Heard, 1969[6]
- Maritrema pulcherrima Travassos, 1928[5]
- Maritrema pyrenaica Deblock and Combes, 1965[8]
- Maritrema subdolum Jägerskiöld, 1909[6]
An undescribed species, "Maritrema sp. I", is known from clapper rails (Rallus crepitans) and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) in the eastern United States.[4] M. heardi was placed in a separate genus Floridatrema upon its description in 1994 on the basis of a morphological difference, but was reassigned to Maritrema in 2005, as molecular data indicated that Maritrema would be paraphyletic without the inclusion of the species.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 10
- ↑ Nikoll, 1907, pp. 265–266
- ↑ Tkach et al., 2005, pp. 210–211
- 1 2 Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
- 1 2 3 4 5 Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 712
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tkach et al., 2005, table 1
- ↑ Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 710
- 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 11
- 1 2 3 Nikoll, 1907, p. 266
Literature cited
- Etchegoin, J.A.; Martorelli, S.R. (1997). "Description of a new species of Maritrema (Digenea: Microphallidae) from Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with notes on its life cycle". The Journal of Parasitology 83 (4): 709–713. doi:10.2307/3284251. JSTOR 3284251.
- 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.
- Kinsella, J.M; Deblock, S. (1994). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLVI. - Description de Floridatrema heardi n. gen., n. sp., parasite d'Oryzomys palustris (Mammifère) des États-unis". Parasite 1 (1): 45–50. doi:10.1051/parasite/1994011045. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 9235193.
- Nikoll, W. (1907). "Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 (20): 245–271.
- Tkach, V.V.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Olson, P.D.; Kinsella, J.M.; Swiderski, Z. (2003). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea)" (PDF). Systematic Parasitology 56 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1023/a:1025546001611.