Echinoparyphium

Echinoparyphium is a genus of trematodes. Intermediate hosts include snails, bivalves and fish. Definitive hosts are mainly birds and mammals.[5]

Echinoparyphium
Echinoparyphium contiguum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Platyhelminthes
Class:	Rhabditophora
Order:	Plagiorchiida
Family:	Echinostomatidae
Genus:	Echinoparyphium Dietz, 1909[1]
Species
Echinoparyphium aconiatum[2] Echinoparyphium contiguum Echinoparyphium elegans Echinoparyphium flexum[3] Echinoparyphium recurvatum[4]

References

1. Die Echinostomiden der Vogel. E Dietz, 1909
2. Leicht K. & Seppälä O. (2014). "Infection success of Echinoparyphium aconiatum (Trematoda) in its snail host under high temperature: role of host resistance". Parasites & Vectors 7:192. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-7-192.
3. Developmental stages in the life cycle of Echinoparyphium flexum (Linton, 1892) Dietz, 1910 (Trematoda: Echinostomatidae). HH Najarian - Journal of Morphology, 1954
4. Soldanova M., Selbach C., Sures B., Kostadinova A. & Perez-del-Olmo A. (2010). "Larval trematode communities in Radix auricularia and Lymnaea stagnalis in a reservoir system of the Ruhr River". Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3: 56. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-56.
5. The biology of Echinoparyphium (Trematoda, Echinostomatidae). Jane E. Huffman and Bernard Fried, Acta Parasitologica, September 2012, Volume 57, Issue 3, pages 199–210

• The influence of temperature on the survival and infectivity of the cercariae of Echinoparyphium recurvatum (Digenea: Echinostomatidae). AM McCARTHY, Parasitology, 1999
• Cycle evolutif d'un trematode de la famille des Echinostomidae (Echinoparyphium recurvatum Linstow). P Mathias, 1927