Echinoparyphium elegans
Echinoparyphium elegans is a species of trematode. Intermediate hosts include snails, bivalves, and fish. Definitive hosts are mainly birds and mammals.[2]
| Echinoparyphium elegans | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Echinostomatidae |
| Genus: | Echinoparyphium |
| Species: | E. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Echinoparyphium elegans | |
Hosts
According to the World Register of Marine Species, Echinoparyphium elegans has been found in the following definitive hosts:[3]
References
- Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürliden Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. A Looss - 1899
- The biology of Echinoparyphium (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae). Jane E. Huffman and Bernard Fried, Acta Parasitologica, September 2012, Volume 57, Issue 3, pages 199–210
- WoRMS (2023). Echinoparyphium elegans (Looss, 1899) Dietz, 1909. Accessed 2023-06-12.
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