Maritrema

Maritrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Microphallidae
Genus: Maritrema
Nikoll, 1907
Type species
Maritrema gratiosum
Nikoll, 1907
Species

See text.

Synonyms[1]
  • Floridatrema Kinsella and Debloch, 1994

Maritrema is a genus of trematodes (flukes) in the family Microphallidae, although some have suggested its placement in the separate family Maritrematidae.[1] It was first described by Nikoll in 1907 from birds in Britain.[2] Species of the genus usually infect birds, but several have switched hosts and are found in mammals, such as the marsh rice rat.[3] Several species use the fiddler crab Uca pigilator as an intermediate host.[4]

Species include:

  • Maritrema acadiae (Swales, 1933)[5]
  • Maritrema arenaria Hadley and Castle, 1940[6]
  • Maritrema bonaerensis Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997[7]
  • Maritrema carpathica Matskasi, 1984[8]
  • Maritrema chiriacae Deblock, 1975[5]
  • Maritrema feliui Gracenea, Montoliu and Deblock, 1993[9][8]
  • Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907[10]
  • Maritrema heardi (Kinsella and Deblock, 1994)[6]
  • Maritrema humile Nikoll, 1907[10]
  • Maritrema lepidum Nikoll, 1907[10]
  • Maritrema majestova Ke, 1976[5]
  • Maritrema neomi Tkoch, 1998[6]
  • Maritrema oocysta Lebour, 1907[6]
  • Maritrema paracadiae Ching, 1974[5]
  • Maritrema prosthometra Deblock and Heard, 1969[6]
  • Maritrema pulcherrima Travassos, 1928[5]
  • Maritrema pyrenaica Deblock and Combes, 1965[8]
  • Maritrema subdolum Jägerskiöld, 1909[6]

An undescribed species, "Maritrema sp. I", is known from clapper rails (Rallus crepitans) and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) in the eastern United States.[4] M. heardi was placed in a separate genus Floridatrema upon its description in 1994 on the basis of a morphological difference, but was reassigned to Maritrema in 2005, as molecular data indicated that Maritrema would be paraphyletic without the inclusion of the species.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 10
  2. ↑ Nikoll, 1907, pp. 265–266
  3. ↑ Tkach et al., 2005, pp. 210–211
  4. 1 2 Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 712
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Tkach et al., 2005, table 1
  7. ↑ Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 710
  8. 1 2 3 Tkach et al., 2005, p. 11
  9. ↑ Gracenea, M.; Montoliu, I.; Deblock, S. (2016). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLV. Description de Maritrema feliui n. sp., parasite de musaraignes (Mammifères) en Espagne". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 68 (2): 76–81. doi:10.1051/parasite/199368276. ISSN 0003-4150.
  10. 1 2 3 Nikoll, 1907, p. 266

Literature cited

  • Etchegoin, J.A.; Martorelli, S.R. (1997). "Description of a new species of Maritrema (Digenea: Microphallidae) from Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with notes on its life cycle". The Journal of Parasitology. 83 (4): 709–713. doi:10.2307/3284251. JSTOR 3284251.
  • 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.
  • Kinsella, J.M; Deblock, S. (1994). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLVI. - Description de Floridatrema heardi n. gen., n. sp., parasite d'Oryzomys palustris (Mammifère) des États-unis". Parasite. 1 (1): 45–50. doi:10.1051/parasite/1994011045. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 9235193.
  • Nikoll, W. (1907). "Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (20): 245–271.
  • Tkach, V.V.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Olson, P.D.; Kinsella, J.M.; Swiderski, Z. (2003). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea)" (PDF). Systematic Parasitology. 56 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1023/a:1025546001611.
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