Microphallus nicolli

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]

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)

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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