Echinochasmus schwartzi

Echinochasmus schwartzi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Echinostomida
Family:	Echinostomatidae
Genus:	Echinochasmus
Species:	E. schwartzi
Binomial name
Echinochasmus schwartzi Price, 1931

Echinochasmus schwartzi is a fluke that infects dogs (Canis lupus familiaris), muskrats (Ondatra zibethicus), and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris).^[1] It uses Fundulus fish as its intermediate host.^[2] Adults are similar to Echinochasmus microcaudatus, but differ in features of the oral sucker.^[3]

See also

• List of parasites of the marsh rice rat

References

1. Ditrich et al., 1996, p. 234; Kinsella, 1988, table 1
2. Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
3. Ditrich et al., 1996, p. 234

Literature cited

• Ditrich, O., Scholz, T. and Vargas-Vázquez, J. 1996. Life-cycle of Echinochasmus macrocaudatus n. sp. (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) (subscription required). Systematic Parasitology 33(3):225–235.
• 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.