Gymnophalloides heardi
Gymnophalloides heardi is a parasitic fluke that infects the marsh rice rat Oryzomys palustris and the clapper rail Rallus crepitans. Its second intermediate host is the snail Melampus bidentatus (in genus Melampus). It is smaller than the two other species of Gymnophalloides, G. seoi and G. tokiensis.[1]
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| Genus: | Gymnophalloides |
| Species: | G. heardi |
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| Gymnophalloides heardi Ching, 1995 | |
References
- Ching, 1995, pp. 924, 926
Literature cited
- Ching, H. L. 1995. Four new gymnophallid digeneans from rice rats, willets, and molluscs in Florida. Journal of Parasitology 81(6):924–928.
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