Urotrema scabridum

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Kingdom Animalia Class Trematoda Family Urotrematidae Scientific name Urotrema scabridum		Phylum Platyhelminthes Order incertae sedis Genus Urotrema Rank Species
Similar Neotropical green an, Physaloptera, Polychrotinae, Molossus, Tadarida

Urotrema scabridum is a fluke in the genus Urotrema of family Urotrematidae. Recorded hosts include:

Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)—salt marsh, Cedar Key, Florida

Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)—Crawford, Kansas

Anolis biporcatus—Panama

Anolis olssoni—Hispaniola

among others.

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.

References

Urotrema scabridum Wikipedia

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