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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Helminths > Platyhelminths > Trematoda > Echinostomatidae

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Echinostomatidae  

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  • a family of trematodes; infection: coord IM with TREMATODE INFECTIONS (IM); for antigens, coord with ANTIGENS, HELMINTH, for antibodies, coord with ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH

Scope note

  • A family of flukes (TREMATODA) characterized by a collar of spines at their anterior end. The body is elongated and is covered with spines, and the two suckers are usually close together. (Noble et al., Parasitology: the Biology of Animal Parasites, 6th ed, p183)

History note

  • 98; use explode 1982-97

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004450

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