- Maritrema
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Maritrema Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Platyhelminthes Class: Trematoda Order: Plagiorchiida Family: Microphallidae Genus: Maritrema
Nikoll, 1907Type species Maritrema gratiosum
Nikoll, 1907Species See text.
Synonyms[1] - Floridatrema Kinsella and Debloch, 1994
Maritrema is a genus of flukes in the family Microphallidae, although some have suggested its placement in the separate family Maritrematidae.[1] It was first described by Nikoll in 1907 from birds in Britain.[2] Species of the genus usually infect birds, but several have switched hosts and are found in mammals, such as the marsh rice rat.[3] Several species use the fiddler crab Uca pigilator as an intermediate host.[4]
Species include:
- Maritrema acadiae (Swales, 1933)[5]
- Maritrema arenaria Hadley and Castle, 1940[6]
- Maritrema bonaerensis Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997[7]
- Maritrema carpathica Matskasi, 1984[8]
- Maritrema chiriacae Deblock, 1975[5]
- Maritrema feliui Gracenea, Montoliu and Deblock, 1993[8]
- Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema heardi (Kinsella and Deblock, 1994)[6]
- Maritrema humile Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema lepidum Nikoll, 1907[9]
- Maritrema majestova Ke, 1976[5]
- Maritrema neomi Tkoch, 1998[6]
- Maritrema oocysta Lebour, 1907[6]
- Maritrema paracadiae Ching, 1974[5]
- Maritrema prosthometra Deblock and Heard, 1969[6]
- Maritrema pulcherrima Travassos, 1928[5]
- Maritrema pyrenaica Deblock and Combes, 1965[8]
- Maritrema subdolum Jägerskiöld, 1909[6]
An undescribed species, "Maritrema sp. I", is known from clapper rails (Rallus longirostris) and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) in the eastern United States.[4] M. heardi was placed in a separate genus Floridatrema upon its description in 1994 on the basis of a morphological difference, but was reassigned to Maritrema in 2005, as molecular data indicated that Maritrema would be paraphyletic without the inclusion of the species.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Tkach et al., 2005, p. 10
- ^ Nikoll, 1907, pp. 265–266
- ^ Tkach et al., 2005, pp. 210–211
- ^ a b Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
- ^ a b c d e Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 712
- ^ a b c d e f Tkach et al., 2005, table 1
- ^ Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 710
- ^ a b c Tkach et al., 2005, p. 11
- ^ a b c Nikoll, 1907, p. 266
Literature cited
- Etchegoin, J.A. and Martorelli, S.R. 1997. Description of a new species of Maritrema (Digenea: Microphallidae) from Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with notes on its life cycle (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 83(4):709–713.
- 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.
- Kinsella, J.M. and Deblock, S. 1994. Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). 46.— Déscription de Floridatrema heardi n. gen., n. sp., parasite d'Oryzomys palustris (mammifère) des Etats-Unis (abstract only). Parasite 1(1):45–50.
- Nikoll, W. 1907. Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)20:245–271.
- Tkach, V.V., Littlewood, D.T.J., Olson, P.D., Kinsella, J.M. and Swiderski, Z. 2003. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea) (subscription required). Systematic Parasitology 56(1):1–15.
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