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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-29
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Historical analysis of the type species of the genus Trichobilharzia Skrjabin et Zakharov, 1920 (Platyhelminthes: Schistosomatidae)

Parasites & Vectors, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, United Kingdom.
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Cirkusová 1740, CZ-193 00 Prague 9 – Horní Počernice, Czech Republic.
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Prague 2, Czech Republic.
Platyhelminthes Schistosomatidae

Abstract

Trichobilharzia Skrjabin & Zakharov, 1920 is known as the most species-rich genus of the blood fluke family Schistosomatidae. To date, more than 40 species have been described, even though validity of some of them is questionable (Horák et al. 2002). Members of the genus use various birds as final hosts, but they attract attention mostly as causative agents of hypersensitive skin reaction (cercarial dermatitis or swimmer’s itch) in mammals including humans. As this is one of the

 

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