Schistosoma ovuncatum
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Schistosoma ovuncatum is a schistosome parasite, first described in 2002. Its recognition as a new species only occurred when zoologists were re examining specimens originally described in 1984[1]
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Schistosoma ovuncatum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
Class: | Trematoda |
Order: | Diplostomida |
Family: | Schistosomatidae |
Genus: | Schistosoma |
Species: | S. ovuncatum |
Binomial name | |
Schistosoma ovuncatum Attwood, Panasoponkul, Upatham, Meng & Southgate, 2002[1] | |
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The species was described from material collected in Chiang Mai Province, northwest Thailand. The name is derived from the shape of the egg (ovum = egg + uncatus hooked). The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.