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Microphallus basodactylophallus

Synonyms: Carneophallus basodactylophallus

Wikipedia Abstract

Microphallus basodactylophallus is a species of digenean parasite in the genus Microphallus. It was first described in 1969, as Carneophallus basodactylophallus, from southern Louisiana, where the raccoon (Procyon lotor) is the definitive host, the first intermediate host is the snail Lyrodes parvula, and the second intermediate host is the crab Callinectes sapidus. It was later moved to the genus Microphallus. In 1988, John Kinsella recorded it from the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in a saltmarsh at Cedar Key, Florida. There, it was one of the most prevalent parasites in the marsh rice rat and used C. sapidus as an intermediate host.
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Providers

Parasite of 
Oryzomys palustris (marsh rice rat)[1]
Sigmodon hispidus (hispid cotton rat)[1]

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1Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0