Acanthotrema cursitans

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Kingdom Animalia Class Trematoda Family Heterophyidae Scientific name Acanthotrema cursitans		Phylum Platyhelminthes Order Opisthorchiida Genus Acanthotrema Rank Species

Acanthotrema cursitans is a species of fluke in the genus Acanthotrema. It infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris), raccoon (Procyon lotor), Virginia opossum (Didelphis virginiana), the snail Cerithidea scalariformis, and killifishes of the genus Fundulus on the Gulf Coast of Florida. It was first described as Cercaria cursitans in 1961, moved to Stictodora in 1974, and moved to Acanthotrema in 2003.

Literature cited

Kinsella, J.M. and Heard, R.W., III. 1974. Morphology and life cycle of Stictodora cursitans n. comb. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) from mammals in Florida salt marshes (subscription required). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 93(3):408–412.

Sohn, W.-M., Han, E.-T. and Chai, J.-Y. 2003. Acanthotrema felis n. sp. (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the small intestine of stray cats in the Republic of Korea (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 89(1):154–158.

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Acanthotrema cursitans Wikipedia

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