Maritrema

Genus of flukes

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]

## References

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1. ^ a b c Tkach et al., 2005, p. 10
2. ^ Nikoll, 1907, pp. 265–266
3. ^ Tkach et al., 2005, pp. 210–211
4. ^ a b Kinsella, 1988, p. 277
5. ^ a b c d e Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 712
6. ^ a b c d e f Tkach et al., 2005, table 1
7. ^ Etchegoin and Martorelli, 1997, p. 710
8. ^ a b c Tkach et al., 2005, p. 11
9. ^ Gracenea, M.; Montoliu, I.; Deblock, S. (2016). "Contribution à l'étude des Microphallidae Travassos, 1920 (Trematoda). XLV. Description de Maritrema feliui n. sp., parasite de musaraignes (Mammifères) en Espagne". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 68 (2): 76–81\. doi:10.1051/parasite/199368276. ISSN 0003-4150. PMID 8215113.
10. ^ a b c Nikoll, 1907, p. 266

## Literature cited

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* 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.

Taxon identifiers

Maritrema|

* Wikidata: Q3379442
* Wikispecies: Maritrema
* AFD: Maritrema
* CoL: 7PF8Z
* Fauna Europaea: 390476
* Fauna Europaea (new): bb446bf9-dc58-45bb-93d7-fa0b40dec98f
* GBIF: 2504168
* IRMNG: 1358712
* ITIS: 56453
* NBN: NHMSYS0020706828
* NCBI: 99694
* NZOR: 40acbfef-675d-46fb-82d7-c3f0d1d14199
* Open Tree of Life: 376728
* WoRMS: 108586