Echinoparyphium elegans

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Echinoparyphium elegans
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Order: Plagiorchiida
Family: Echinostomatidae
Genus: Echinoparyphium
Species:
E. elegans
Binomial name
Echinoparyphium elegans
Looss, 1899[1]

Echinoparyphium elegans is a species of trematode. Intermediate hosts include snails, bivalves, and fish. Definitive hosts are mainly birds and mammals.[2]

References

  1. ^ Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürliden Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. A Looss - 1899
  2. ^ The biology of Echinoparyphium (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae). Jane E. Huffman and Bernard Fried, Acta Parasitologica, September 2012, Volume 57, Issue 3, pages 199–210