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Echinoparyphium elegans

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Species of fluke

Echinoparyphium elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Echinostomatidae
Genus: Echinoparyphium
Species: E. elegans
Binomial name
Echinoparyphium elegans
Looss, 1899

Echinoparyphium elegans is a species of trematode. Intermediate hosts include snails, bivalves, and fish. Definitive hosts are mainly birds and mammals.

Hosts

According to the World Register of Marine Species, Echinoparyphium elegans has been found in the following definitive hosts:

References

  1. Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürliden Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. A Looss - 1899
  2. The biology of Echinoparyphium (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae). Jane E. Huffman and Bernard Fried, Acta Parasitologica, September 2012, Volume 57, Issue 3, pages 199–210
  3. WoRMS (2023). Echinoparyphium elegans (Looss, 1899) Dietz, 1909. Archived 2023-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Accessed 2023-06-12.
Taxon identifiers
Echinoparyphium elegans
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