Echinochasmus schwartzi

Echinochasmus schwartzi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Echinostomida
Family: Echinostomatidae
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]

See also

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

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