Stellantchasmus

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Stellantchasmus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Heterophyidae
Genus: Stellantchasmus
Onji & Nishio, 1916 [1]

Stellantchasmus is a genus of trematodes in the family Heterophyidae.

Species

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References

  1. 1 2 Onji, Y. & Nishio, T. (1916). A review of new intestinal flukes. Igaku Chuo Zasshi, 14, 439–442.
  2. Pearson, J. C. (1964). A revision of the subfamily Haplorchinae Looss, 1899 (Trematoda: Heterophyidae). Parasitology, 54, 601–676.
  3. Oshmarin, P. G. (1971). A new species of trematode from the blood vessels of Chelonia. In, Parazity Zhivotnykh i Rasternii Dal'nego Vostoka (pp. 142–143). Vladivostok: Dal'nevostochnoe Knizhnoe Izdatel'stvo.
  4. Pearson, J. C. & Ow-Yang, C. K. (1982). New species of Haplorchis from south-east Asia, together with keys to the Haplorchis group of heterophyid trematodes of the region. Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, 13, 35–60.