Maritrema prosthometra | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Family: | Microphallidae |
Genus: | Maritrema |
Species: | M. prosthometra
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Binomial name | |
Maritrema prosthometra Deblock and Heard, 1969
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Maritrema prosthometra is a parasitic fluke from North America. It was first described in 1969 from the intestine of the clapper rail (Rallus crepitans) in eastern North America. [1] Later, it was also found in the small intestine of 5% of a sample of marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) collected in a salt marsh at Cedar Key, Florida, [2] where it used the fiddler crab Uca pugilator as an intermediate host. [3]