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Acanthotrema cursitans

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Acanthotrema cursitans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Heterophyidae
Genus: Acanthotrema
Species:
A. cursitans
Binomial name
Acanthotrema cursitans
(Holliman, 1961)
Synonyms
  • Cercaria cursitans Holliman, 1961
  • Stictodora cursitans Kinsella and Heard, 1974
  • Acanthotrema cursitans Sohn, Han, and Chai, 2003

Acanthotrema cursitans is a species of fluke in the genus Acanthotrema. It infects the marsh rice rat Oryzomys palustris, the raccoon Procyon lotor, the Virginia opossum Didelphis virginiana, the snail Cerithidea scalariformis, and killifishes of the genus Fundulus on the Gulf Coast of Florida.[1] It was first described as Cercaria cursitans in 1961, then moved to Stictodora in 1974, and to Acanthotrema in 2003.[2]

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References

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  1. ^ Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408
  2. ^ Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408; Sohn et al., 2003, p. 157

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