Urotrema scabridum is a fluke in the genus Urotrema of family Urotrematidae. Recorded hosts include: Marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris)—salt marsh, Cedar Key, FloridaKinsella, 1988, table 1 Gray bat (Myotis grisescens)—Crawford, KansasNickel and Hansen, 1967, table 1 Anolis biporcatus—PanamaBursey et al., 2003, p. 118 Anolis olssoni—HispaniolaGoldberg et al., 1998, table 1 among others.
See also List of parasites of the marsh rice rat
References
Literature cited Bray, R.A., Gibson, D.I. and Zhang, J. 1999. Urotrematidae Poche, 1926 (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) in Chinese freshwater fishes. Systematic Parasitology 44:193–200. Bursey, C.R., Goldberg, S.R. and Telford, S.R. Jr. 2003. Strongyluris panamaensis n. sp. (Nematoda: Heterakidae) and other helminths from the lizard, Anolis biporcatus (Sauria: Polychrotidae), from Panama. Journal of Parasitology 89(1):118–123. Goldberg, S.R., Bursey, C.R. and Cheam, H. 1998. Helminths of six species of Anolis lizards (Polychrotidae) from Hispaniola, West Indies. The Journal of Parasitology 84(6):1291–1295. Kinsella, J.M. 1988. Comparison of helminths of rice rats, Oryzomys palustris, from freshwater and saltwater marshes in Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 55(2):275–280. Nickel, P.A. and Hansen, M.F. 1967. Helminths of bats collected in Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 78(2):481–486.