Echinochasmus Explained

Echinochasmus is a genus of trematodes in the family Echinochasmidae.

Species

• Echinochasmus cohensi Rao, 1951^[1]
• Echinochasmus dietzevi Issaitschikov, 1927^[2]
• Echinochasmus donaldsoni Beaver, 1941^[3]
• Echinochasmus mohiuddini Dharejo, Bilqees & Khan, 2007^[4]
• Echinochasmus mordax (Looss, 1899)^[5]
• Echinochasmus skrjabini (Oshmarin, 1947)^[6]
• Echinochasmus schwartzi Price, 1931

Notes and References

1. Rao, N. S. K. (1951). Echinochasmus cohensi n. sp. (family Echinostomatidae, subfamily Echinochasminae) from the sea gull, Larus argentatus. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 29(3), 215–218.
2. Issaitschikov, I. M. (1927). Russian Helminthological Expedition in the Crimea. In Reports of the 28 Helminthological Expeditions in the USSR (pp. 110–125).
3. Beaver, P. C. (1941). The life history of Echinochasmus donaldsoni n. sp., a trematode (Echinostomatidae) from the pied-billed grebe. The Journal of Parasitology, 27(4), 347–355.
4. Dharejo, A. M., Bilqees, F. M. & Khan, M. M. (2007). Echinochasmus mohiuddini, new species (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae) from the paddy bird Ardeola grayii (Ardeidae) of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology, 39(5), 285–288.
5. Looss, A. (1899). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Trematoden-Fauna Aegyptens, zugleich Versuch einer natürlichen Gliederung des Genus Distomum Retzius. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere, 12, 521–784.
6. Oshmarin, P. G. (1947). Description of two new species of trematode from the liver of the birds in connection with the analysis of phylogenetic relationships. Trudy Gor'kovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Pedagogicheskogo Instituta, 12, 33–47.