Schistosoma ovuncatum is a schistosome parasite, first described in 2002. Its recognition as a new species only occurred when zoologists were re examining specimens originally described in 1984[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Platyhelminthes |
| Class: | Trematoda |
| Order: | Diplostomida |
| Family: | Schistosomatidae |
| Genus: | Schistosoma |
| Species: | S. ovuncatum
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| Binomial name | |
| Schistosoma ovuncatum Attwood, Panasoponkul, Upatham, Meng & Southgate, 2002[1]
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The species was described from material collected in Chiang Mai Province, northwest Thailand. The name is derived from the shape of the egg (ovum = egg + uncatus hooked). The natural final host is the rat (Rattus rattus) and the intermediate host is the pomatiopsid snail Tricula bollingi.
References
edit- ^ a b Attwood, S. W.; Panasoponkul, C.; Upatham, E. S.; Meng, X. H.; Southgate, V. R. (2002). "Schistosoma ovuncatum n. sp. (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) from northwest Thailand and the historical biogeography of Southeast Asian Schistosoma Weinland, 1858". Systematic Parasitology. 51 (1): 1–19. doi:10.1023/A:1012988516995. PMID 11721191. S2CID 21696073.
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