Acanthotrema cursitans

Acanthotrema cursitans is a species of fluke in the genus Acanthotrema. It infects the marsh rice rat Oryzomys palustris, the raccoon Procyon lotor, the Virginia opossum Didelphis virginiana, the snail Cerithidea scalariformis, and killifishes of the genus Fundulus on the Gulf Coast of Florida.[1] It was first described as Cercaria cursitans in 1961, the moved to Stictodora in 1974, and to Acanthotrema in 2003.[2]

Acanthotrema cursitans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Trematoda
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Heterophyidae
Genus:	Acanthotrema
Species:	A. cursitans
Binomial name
Acanthotrema cursitans (Holliman, 1961) Sohn, Han & Chai, 2003
Synonyms
Cercaria cursitans Holliman, 1961 Stictodora cursitans Kinsella and Heard, 1974 Acanthotrema cursitans Sohn, Han, and Chai, 2003

See also

• List of parasites of the marsh rice rat

References

1. Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408
2. Kinsella and Heard, 1974, p. 408; Sohn et al., 2003, p. 157

Literature cited

• Kinsella, J.M. and Heard, R.W., III. 1974. Morphology and life cycle of Stictodora cursitans n. comb. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) from mammals in Florida salt marshes (subscription required). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 93(3):408–412.
• Sohn, W.-M., Han, E.-T. and Chai, J.-Y. 2003. Acanthotrema felis n. sp. (Digenea: Heterophyidae) from the small intestine of stray cats in the Republic of Korea (subscription required). The Journal of Parasitology 89(1):154–158.