Maritrema

Maritrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Microphallidae
Genus: Maritrema
Nikoll, 1907
Type species
Maritrema gratiosum
Nikoll, 1907
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Floridatrema Kinsella and Debloch, 1994

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:

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. 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 10
  2. Nikoll, 1907, pp. 265–266
  3. Tkach et al., 2005, pp. 210–211
  4. 1 2 Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 712
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tkach et al., 2005, table 1
  7. Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 710
  8. 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 11
  9. Gracenea, M.; Montoliu, I.; Deblock, S. (2016). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLV. Description de Maritrema feliui n. sp., parasite de musaraignes (Mammifères) en Espagne". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 68 (2): 76–81. doi:10.1051/parasite/199368276. ISSN 0003-4150.
  10. 1 2 3 Nikoll, 1907, p. 266

Literature cited

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