Microphallus nicolli

Microphallus nicolli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Microphallidae
Genus: Microphallus
Species: M. nicolli
Binomial name
Microphallus nicolli
(Cable and Hunninen, 1938)

Microphallus nicolli is a species of digenean parasite in the genus Microphallus. Recorded hosts include the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in a saltmarsh at Cedar Key, Florida, where the crab Eurytium limosum is an intermediate host,[1] and the sea otter (Enhydra lutris) in central California.[2] It was previously known as Spelotrema nicolli.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kinsella, 1988, table 1, p. 277
  2. ↑ Mayer et al., 2003, pp. 82–83
  3. ↑ Mayer et al., 2003, p. 87

Literature cited

  • 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.
  • Mayer, K.A., Dailey, M.D. and Miller, M.A. 2003. Helminth parasites of the southern sea otter Enhydra lutris nereis in central California: abundance, distribution and pathology. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 53:77–88.
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