Heterophyes
Genus of flukes
| Heterophyes | |
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| Adult specimen of Heterophyes heterophyes stained with carmine | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Plagiorchiida |
| Family: | Heterophyidae |
| Genus: | Heterophyes Cobbold, 1866[1] |
Heterophyes is a genus of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae.[2]
Species
Species within the genus Heterophyes include:
- Heterophyes aequalis Looss, 1902[3]
- Heterophyes bucalis Marco del Pont, 1926[3]
- Heterophyes dispar Looss, 1902[3]
- Heterophyes fraterna (Looss, 1894)[3]
- Heterophyes heroni El-Ezz, Tantawy, Mahdy & El-Massry, 2001[3]
- Heterophyes heterophyes (Siebold, 1853)[3]
- Heterophyes inops Looss, 1902[3]
- Heterophyes larii Zhao, 1991[3]
- Heterophyes nocens Onji & Nishio, 1916[3]
References
- ^ Cobbold T. S. (1866). Tapeworms, page 6.
- ^ Bogitsh, Burton Jerome; Carter, Clint Earl; Oeltmann, Thomas N. (2013). Human Parasitology. Academic Press. ISBN 9780124159150.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Gibson, D. (2015). Heterophyes Cobbold, 1866. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=108611 on 2016-01-06
External links
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- "Heterophyes". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
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