Spirorchiidae
| Spirorchiidae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Subclass: | Digenea |
| Order: | Strigeidida |
| Suborder: | Strigeata |
| Superfamily: | Schistosomatoidea |
| Family: | Spirorchiidae Rao, 1933 |
Spirorchiidae is a family of digenetic trematodes. Infestation by these trematodes leads to the disease state commonly called spirorchiidiosis. Spirorchiids are parasites of turtles.[1]
Genera
Genera in the family Spirorchiidae include:
- Amphiorchis
- Amphiorchis solus
- Hapalotrema
- Hapalotrema postorchis
- Learedius
- Learedius learedi Price, 1934
- Monticellius
- Monticellius indicum Mehra, 1939
- Neospirorchis
- Neospirorchis schistosomatoides Price, 1934
- Spirhapalum
- Spirhapalum siamensis Tkach, Snyder & Vaughan, 2009[2]
- Spirorchis
- Spirorchis scripta Stunkard, 1923
Hosts
Some species of spirochiids are parasites of the freshwater snail Indoplanorbis exustus.[3]
The cardiovascular parasites Learedius learedi, Hapalotrema postorchis, Monticellius indicum and Amphiorchis solus have been found in the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas).[4]
Spirhapalum siamensis is a parasite found in the heart of the Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis).[2]
References
- ↑ Snyder, S. D. (2004). Phylogeny and paraphyly among tetrapod blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatidae and Spirorchiidae). International Journal for Parasitology 34(12), 1385-92.
- 1 2 Tkach, V. V.; Snyder, S. D.; Vaughan, J. A. (2009). "A New Species of Blood Fluke (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) from the Malayan Box Turtle, Cuora amboinensis (Cryptodira: Geomydidae) in Thailand". Journal of Parasitology. 95 (3): 743–746. doi:10.1645/GE-1858.1. PMID 19093710..
- ↑ Liu, L.; Mondal, M. M.; Idris, M. A.; Lokman, H. S.; Rajapakse, P. V. J.; Satrija, F.; Diaz, J. L.; Upatham, E. S.; Attwood, S. W. (2010). "The phylogeography of Indoplanorbis exustus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae) in Asia". Parasites & Vectors. 3: 57. doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-57..
- ↑ Santoro, M.; Morales, J. A.; Rodríguez-Ortíz, B. (2007). "Spirorchiidiosis (Digenea: Spirorchiidae) and lesions associated with parasites in Caribbean green turtles (Chelonia mydas)". The Veterinary record. 161 (14): 482–486. PMID 17921440..
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