Microphallidae (Ward, 1901) Travassos 1920
Creators: name: Cremonte, Florencia
name: Drago, Fabiana B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Platyhelminthes
Trematoda
Plagiorchiida
Microphallidae

description: Family Microphallidae (Ward, 1901) Travassos, 1920   Levinseniella Stiles & Hassall, 1901   
 Levinseniella cruzi Travassos, 1920   
 Hosts: Rollandia rolland chilensis (Lesson), Himantopus melanurus Vieillot, Vanellus chilensis lam­   
 pronotus (Wagler).   
Site of infection: ceca.  
 Localities: Los Talas; Chascomús lagoon and Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, Buenos Aires Province. Life history: Hi1: Heleobia conexa (Gaillard), H. parchappei (d’Orbigny) (natural hosts). Hi2: Palaemonetes argentinus Nobili (experimental and natural host); metacercariae in muscles, gonads, connective tissue.   
Material deposited: MLP, 3303C–3306C, USNPC 84905–84908. References: Martorelli (1988), Martorelli & Schuldt (1990), Martorelli & Ivanov (1996).  
 Levinseniella (Monarrhenos) anenteron (Szidat, 1964) Deblock, 1978 Syn.: Austromicrophallus anenteron Szidat, 1964.   
 Hosts: Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein, L. maculipennis Lichtenstein. Site of infection: intestine.   
Localities: San Carlos de Bariloche and Nahuel Huapí Lake, Río Negro Province; Huechulaufquen Lake,  
Lanín National Park, Neuquén Province.  
Reference: Szidat (1964).  
 Maritrema Nicoll, 1907   
 Maritrema bonaerensis Etchegoin & Martorelli, 1997 Hosts: Larus maculipennis Lichtenstein, L. dominicanus Lichtenstein, L. atlanticus Olrog. Site of infection: intestine.   
Localities: Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon and Orense beach, Buenos Aires Province.  
 Life history: Hi1: Heleobia australis australis (d'Orbigny) (natural host). Hi2: Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana (natural and experimental host), Chasmagnathus granulata Dana. (natural host); metacercariae in hepatopancreas.   
Material deposited: MLP, 3661a–b, 4583; USNPC, 87019, 87020.  
 References: Etchegoin & Martorelli (1997a), Cremonte et al. (1999).   
 Maritrema orensensis Cremonte & Martorelli, 1998   
 Host: Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein.   
Site of infection: intestine.  
Locality: Orense beach, Buenos Aires Province.  
Material deposited: MLP, 3955–3956; IPCAS, D­405.  
Reference: Cremonte & Martorelli (1998).  
 Microphallus Ward, 1901   
 Microphallus simillimus (Travassos, 1920) Martorelli, 1991   
 Host: Himantopus melanurus Vieillot.   
Site of infection: intestine.  
 Locality: Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon, Buenos Aires Province. Life history: Hi1: Heleobia conexa (Gaillard) (natural host); metacercariae in hepatopancreas and gonads. Material deposited: MLP, 3100 D­3102 D   
Reference: Martorelli (1991).  
 Microphallus szidati Martorelli, 1986   
 Natural hosts: Himantopus melanurus Vieillot, Pardirallus sanguinolentus sanguinolentus (Swainson),   
 Larus atlanticus Olrog.   
 Experimental host: Mus musculus L.   
Site of infection: intestine, ceca.  
 Localities: Mar Chiquita coastal lagoon and Los Talas, Buenos Aires Province. Life history: Hi1: Heleobia conexa (Gaillard), H. parchappei (d’Orbigny) (natural hosts). Hi2: Cyrtograpsus angulatus Dana, Chasmagnathus granulata Dana (natural hosts); metacercariae in hepatopancreas; Palaeomonetes argentinus Nobili (natural and experimental host); metacercariae in muscles, gonads and connective tissue.   
 Material deposited: MLP, adult: 1319 C, metacercariae: 1319 D. References: Martorelli (1986a, 1986b, 1989a), Martorelli & Schuldt (1990), Etchegoin et al. (1996).   
 Odhneria Travassos, 1921   
 Odhneria odhneri Travassos, 1921   
 Hosts: Phalacrocorax brasilianus (Gmelin), Larus dominicanus Lichtenstein. Locality: Fracasso beach, San José Gulf, Chubut Province. Site of infection: intestine.   
Material deposited: MLP, 4868.  
Reference: Cremonte & Etchegoin (2002).
description: Published as part of Cremonte, Florencia & Drago, Fabiana B., 2007, Checklist of digenean parasites of birds from Argentina, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1403 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273687