Metagonimus

Metagonimus
Metagonimus yokogawai
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: Digenea
Order: Opisthorchiida
Family: Heterophyidae
Genus: Metagonimus
Katsurada, 1913[1]
Diversity[2]
8 species

Metagonimus is a genus of trematodes, or fluke worms, in the family Heterophyidae.

It is a parasite causing metagonimiasis.

Species

There are 8 species[2] within the genus Metagonimus include:

References

  1. Katsurada (1913). Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, (I. Orig.) 72: 158.
  2. 1 2 Shimazu T. & Kino H. (2015). "Metagonimus yokogawai (Trematoda: Heterophyidae): From Discovery to Designation of a Neotype". The Korean Journal of Parasitology 53(5): 627-639. doi:10.3347/kjp.2015.53.5.627.
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