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Gynaecotyla adunca

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Microphallidae

Scientific name
  
Gynaecotyla adunca

Rank
  
Species

Class
  
Trematoda

Genus
  
Gynaecotyla

Phylum
  
Platyhelminthes

Order
  
Plagiorchiida

Similar
  
Microphallus, Tritia obsoleta, Ascocotyle pindoramensis, Echinochasmus schwartzi, Haplorchis

Gynaecotyla adunca is a fluke that normally infects birds. It has also been found in 15% of a sample of the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) from a salt marsh at Cedar Key, Florida. It uses fiddler crabs such as Uca rapax as its intermediate host.

Literature cited

  • 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.
  • Verberg, W.B. and Hunter, W.S. 1961. Studies on oxygen consumption in digenetic trematodes. V. The influence of temperature on three species of adult trematodes (subscription required). Experimental Parasitology 11(1):34–38.

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