Schistosoma ovuncatum
| Schistosoma ovuncatum | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Strigeidida |
| Family: | Schistosomatidae |
| Genus: | Schistosoma |
| Species: | S. ovuncatum |
| Binomial name | |
| Schistosoma ovuncatum 2002[1] | |
Schistosoma ovuncatum is a schistozome parasite, first described in 2002. Its recognition as a new species only occurred when zoologists were re examining specimens originally described in 1984[1]
The species was described from material collected in Chiang Mai Province, northwest Thailand. The name is derived from the shape of the egg (ovum = egg + uncatus hooked). The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.
References
- 1 2 Attwood, S. W.; Panasoponkul, C.; Upatham, E. S.; Meng, X. H.; Southgate, V. R. (2002). "Schistosoma ovuncatum n. sp. (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) from northwest Thailand and the historical biogeography of Southeast Asian Schistosoma Weinland, 1858". Systematic Parasitology 51 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1023/A:1012988516995. PMID 11721191.
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