Metagonimus
Appearance
Metagonimus | |
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Metagonimus yokogawai | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Plagiorchiida |
Family: | Heterophyidae |
Genus: | Metagonimus Katsurada, 1913[1] |
Diversity[2] | |
8 species |
Metagonimus is a genus of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae.[3]
It is a parasite causing metagonimiasis.
Species
[edit]There are 8 species[2] within the genus Metagonimus include:
- Metagonimus hakubaensis Shimazu, 1999
- Metagonimus katsuradai Izumi, 1935
- Metagonimus minutus
- Metagonimus miyatai Saito, Chai, Kim, Lee and Rim, 1997
- Metagonimus otsurui Saito & Hori, 1962
- Metagonimus ovatus
- Metagonimus takahashii Takahashi, 1929
- Metagonimus yokogawai (Katsurada, 1912)
References
[edit]- ^ Katsurada (1913). Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, (I. Orig.) 72: 158.
- ^ a b Shimazu, Takeshi; Kino, Hideto (2015-10-29). "Metagonimus yokogawai (Trematoda: Heterophyidae): From discovery to designation of a neotype". The Korean Journal of Parasitology. 53 (5): 627–639. doi:10.3347/kjp.2015.53.5.627. PMC 4635838. PMID 26537043.
- ^ Scholz, Tomáš; Kuchta, Roman; Barčák, Daniel; Cech, Gábor; Oros, Mikuláš (2024). "Small intestinal flukes of the genus Metagonimus (Digenea: Heterophyidae) in Europe and the Middle East: A review of parasites with zoonotic potential". Parasite. 31: 20. doi:10.1051/parasite/2024016. PMC 10979786. PMID 38551578.
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