''Urotrema scabridum'' is a
fluke
Fluke may refer to:
Biology
* Fluke (fish), a species of marine flatfish
* Fluke (tail), the lobes of the tail of a cetacean, such as dolphins or whales, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs
Mosasaurs (from Latin ''Mosa'' meaning the 'Meuse', and Greek ...
in the genus ''
Urotrema
''Urotrema'' is a genus of flatworms belonging to the family Pleurogenidae
Pleurogenidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order Plagiorchiida.
Genera:
* ''Cortrema'' Tang, 1951
* ''Langeronia'' Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1949
* ''Nenim ...
'' of family
Urotrematidae
Pleurogenidae is a family of trematodes belonging to the order Plagiorchiida.
Genera:
* '' Cortrema'' Tang, 1951
* '' Langeronia'' Caballero & Bravo-Hollis, 1949
* '' Nenimandijea'' Kaw, 1950
* '' Pleurogenes'' Looss, 1896
* '' Pleurogenoides'' T ...
. Recorded hosts include:
*
Marsh rice rat
The marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris'') is a semiaquatic North American rodent in the family Cricetidae. It usually occurs in wetland habitats, such as swamps and salt marshes. It is found mostly in the eastern and southern United States, fr ...
(''Oryzomys palustris'')—salt marsh,
Cedar Key, Florida
Cedar Key is a city in Levy County, Florida, United States. The population was 702 at the 2010 census. The Cedar Keys are a cluster of islands near the mainland. Most of the developed area of the city has been on Way Key since the end of the 19th ...
*
Gray bat (''Myotis grisescens'')—
Crawford, Kansas
*''
Anolis biporcatus
''Anolis biporcatus'', also known as the neotropical green anole or giant green anole, is a species of anole. It is found in forests, both disturbed and undisturbed, in Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Venezuela. More southern populations, ...
''—Panama
*''
Anolis olssoni''—Hispaniola
[Goldberg et al., 1998, table 1]
among others.
See also
*
List of parasites of the marsh rice rat
A variety of parasites have been recorded from the marsh rice rat (''Oryzomys palustris''), a semiaquatic rodent found in the eastern and southern United States, north to New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeaste ...
References
Literature cited
* Bray, R.A., Gibson, D.I. and Zhang, J. 1999. Urotrematidae Poche, 1926 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) in Chinese freshwater fishes. Systematic Parasitology 44:193–200.
* Bursey, C.R., Goldberg, S.R. and Telford, S.R. Jr. 2003. ''Strongyluris panamaensis'' n. sp. (Nematoda: Heterakidae) and other helminths from the lizard, ''Anolis biporcatus'' (Sauria: Polychrotidae), from Panama. Journal of Parasitology 89(1):118–123.
* Goldberg, S.R., Bursey, C.R. and Cheam, H. 1998. Helminths of six species of ''Anolis'' lizards (Polychrotidae) from Hispaniola, West Indies. The Journal of Parasitology 84(6):1291–1295.
* 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.
* Nickel, P.A. and Hansen, M.F. 1967. Helminths of bats collected in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 78(2):481–486.
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Digenea
Animals described in 1900
Parasites of mammals
Parasites of reptiles