Maritrema

Maritrema
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Microphallidae
Subfamily:	Maritrematinae
Genus:	Maritrema Nikoll, 1907
Type species
Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907
Species
See text
Synonyms[1]
Floridatrema Kinsella and Debloch, 1994

Maritrema is a genus of trematodes (flukes) in the family Microphallidae, although some have suggested its placement in the separate family Maritrematidae.^[1] It was first described by Nikoll in 1907 from birds in Britain.^[2] Species of the genus usually infect birds, but several have switched hosts and are found in mammals, such as the marsh rice rat.^[3] Several species use the fiddler crab Uca pugilator as an intermediate host.^[4]

Species include:

• Maritrema acadiae (Swales, 1933)^[5]
• Maritrema arenaria Hadley and Castle, 1940^[6]
• Maritrema bonaerensis Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997^[7]
• Maritrema carpathica Matskasi, 1984^[8]
• Maritrema chiriacae Deblock, 1975^[5]
• Maritrema feliui Gracenea, Montoliu and Deblock, 1993^[9][8]
• Maritrema gratiosum Nikoll, 1907^[10]
• Maritrema heardi (Kinsella and Deblock, 1994)^[6]
• Maritrema humile Nikoll, 1907^[10]
• Maritrema lepidum Nikoll, 1907^[10]
• Maritrema majestova Ke, 1976^[5]
• Maritrema neomi Tkoch, 1998^[6]
• Maritrema oocysta Lebour, 1907^[6]
• Maritrema paracadiae Ching, 1974^[5]
• Maritrema prosthometra Deblock and Heard, 1969^[6]
• Maritrema pulcherrima Travassos, 1928^[5]
• Maritrema pyrenaica Deblock and Combes, 1965^[8]
• Maritrema subdolum Jägerskiöld, 1909^[6]
• Maritrema Poulini
• Maritrema novaezealandense

An undescribed species, "Maritrema sp. I", is known from clapper rails (Rallus crepitans) and marsh rice rats (Oryzomys palustris) in the eastern United States.^[4] M. heardi was placed in a separate genus Floridatrema upon its description in 1994 on the basis of a morphological difference, but was reassigned to Maritrema in 2005, as molecular data indicated that Maritrema would be paraphyletic without the inclusion of the species.^[1]

• Etchegoin, J.A.; Martorelli, S.R. (1997). "Description of a new species of Maritrema (Digenea: Microphallidae) from Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon (Buenos Aires, Argentina) with notes on its life cycle". The Journal of Parasitology. 83 (4): 709–713. doi:10.2307/3284251. JSTOR 3284251. PMID 9267416.
• 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.
• Kinsella, J.M; Deblock, S. (1994). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLVI. - Description de Floridatrema heardi n. gen., n. sp., parasite d'Oryzomys palustris (Mammifère) des États-unis". Parasite. 1 (1): 45–50. doi:10.1051/parasite/1994011045. ISSN 1252-607X. PMID 9235193.
• Nikoll, W. (1907). "Observations on the trematode parasites of British birds". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 (20): 245–271. doi:10.1080/00222930709487332.
• Tkach, V.V.; Littlewood, D.T.J.; Olson, P.D.; Kinsella, J.M.; Swiderski, Z. (2003). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the Microphalloidea Ward, 1901 (Trematoda: Digenea)". Systematic Parasitology. 56 (1): 1–15. doi:10.1023/a:1025546001611. PMID 12975618. S2CID 4801094.