Microphallus nicolli
Appearance
Microphallus nicolli | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Family: | Microphallidae |
Genus: | Microphallus |
Species: | M. nicolli
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Binomial name | |
Microphallus nicolli (Cable and Hunninen, 1938)
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Microphallus nicolli is a species of digenean parasite in the genus Microphallus. Recorded hosts include the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in a saltmarsh at Cedar Key, Florida, where the crab Eurytium limosum is an intermediate host,[1] and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in central California.[2] It was previously known as Spelotrema nicolli.[3]
References
[edit]Literature cited
[edit]- 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.
- Mayer, K.A., Dailey, M.D. and Miller, M.A. 2003. Helminth parasites of the southern sea otter Enhydra lutris nereis in central California: abundance, distribution and pathology. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 53:77–88.