Urotrema scabridum explained

Urotrema scabridum is a fluke in the genus Urotrema of family Urotrematidae. Recorded hosts include:

• Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)—salt marsh, Cedar Key, Florida^[1]
• Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)—Crawford, Kansas^[2]
• Anolis biporcatus—Panama^[3]
• Anolis olssoni—Hispaniola^[4]

among others.

See also

• List of parasites of the marsh rice rat

Literature cited

• Bray, R.A., Gibson, D.I. and Zhang, J. 1999. Urotrematidae Poche, 1926 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) in Chinese freshwater fishes. Systematic Parasitology 44:193–200.
• Bursey, C.R., Goldberg, S.R. and Telford, S.R. Jr. 2003. Strongyluris panamaensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Heterakidae) and other helminths from the lizard, Anolis biporcatus (Sauria: Polychrotidae), from Panama. Journal of Parasitology 89(1):118–123.
• Goldberg, S.R., Bursey, C.R. and Cheam, H. 1998. Helminths of six species of Anolis lizards (Polychrotidae) from Hispaniola, West Indies. The Journal of Parasitology 84(6):1291–1295.
• 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.
• Nickel, P.A. and Hansen, M.F. 1967. Helminths of bats collected in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 78(2):481–486.

Notes and References

1. Kinsella, 1988, table 1
2. Nickel and Hansen, 1967, table 1
3. Bursey et al., 2003, p. 118
4. Goldberg et al., 1998, table 1