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Batrachotrema
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Batrachotrematidae
Genus: Batrachotrema
Dollfus & Williams, 1966

Batrachotrema is a genus of trematodes in the family Batrachotrematidae. It is the type-genus of the family, and its type-species is B. petropedatis. The type-species is the only species of the family found in Africa, (as opposed to south-eastern Asia,) and this distinction has led Cribb (2005) to consider that a family-level distinction may be needed between B. petropedatis and other species of Batrachotrematidae; however, molecular testing will be needed to decide this point. Batrachotrema also contains B. pseudobagri, the only species of Batrachotrematidae which is parasitic in a fish, rather than in frogs.

Species

References

  1. ^ Dollfus, R. P. & Williams, M. O. (1966). Recherche des affinités naturelles d'un distome (Trematoda: Prosostomata) parasite de batracien anoure de Sierra-Leone. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, 38, 201–207.
  2. Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Batrachotrematidae Dollfus and Williams, 1966. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), Keys to the Trematoda. Vol. 2 (pp. 437–442). London, UK: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum.
  3. ^ Rizvi, A. N., Bursey, C. R. & Bhutia, P. T. (2012). Three new species of Digenea (Batrachotrematidae) in Nanorana minica (Anura, Dicroglossidae) from Uttarkhand, India. Acta Parasitologica, 57(2), 154–159
  4. Tandon, V., Imkongwapang, R. & Prasad, P. (2005). On two new species of the trematode genera Opisthioparorchis Wang, 1980 and Batrachotrema Dollfus and Williams, 1966 (Batrachotrematidae), with a report of a Chinese species of Opsithioparorchis from anuran amphibian hosts in India. Zoos' Print Journal, 20(6), 1883–1887.
  5. Liang, C. & Je, X. (1988). Four new trematodes from mammals and amphibians in Guangdong Province (Trematode: Cathaemasiidae, Batrachotrematidae). Annual Bulletin of the Society of Parasitology, Guangdong Province, 10, 129–133.
  6. Wang, P. (1981). Notes on some trematodes from freshwater fishes in Fujian Province. Journal of the Fujian Teachers University, Normal Science, 11, 81–90.
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Batrachotrema
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