Acanthotrema cursitans

Acanthotrema cursitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Heterophyidae
Genus:	Acanthotrema
Species:	A. cursitans
Binomial name
Acanthotrema cursitans (Holliman, 1961)
Synonyms
Cercaria cursitansHolliman, 1961 Stictodora cursitansKinsella and Heard, 1974 Acanthotrema cursitansSohn, Han, and Chai, 2003

Acanthotrema cursitans is a species of fluke in the genus Acanthotrema . It infects the marsh rice rat Oryzomys palustris, the raccoon Procyon lotor, the Virginia opossum Didelphis virginiana, the snail Cerithidea scalariformis , and killifishes of the genus Fundulus on the Gulf Coast of Florida. ^[1] It was first described as Cercaria cursitans in 1961, then moved to Stictodora in 1974, and to Acanthotrema in 2003. ^[2]

See also

• List of parasites of the marsh rice rat

References

1. Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408
2. Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408; Sohn et al., 2003, p. 157

Literature cited

• Kinsella, J.M. and Heard, R.W., III. 1974. Morphology and life cycle of Stictodora cursitans n. comb. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) from mammals in Florida salt marshes (subscription required). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 93(3):408–412.
• Sohn, W.-M., Han, E.-T. and Chai, J.-Y. 2003. Acanthotrema felis n. sp. (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the small intestine of stray cats in the Republic of Korea (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 89(1):154–158.