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Echinochasmus schwartzi

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Species of fluke

Echinochasmus schwartzi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Echinochasmidae
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). It uses Fundulus fish as its intermediate host. Adults are similar to Echinochasmus microcaudatus, but differ in features of the oral sucker.

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

  • Ditrich, O., Scholz, T. and Vargas-Vázquez, J. 1996. Life-cycle of Echinochasmus macrocaudatus n. sp. (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) (subscription required). Systematic Parasitology 33(3):225–235.
  • 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.
Taxon identifiers
Echinochasmus schwartzi
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