''Batrachotrema'' is a
genus
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of
trematodes
Trematoda is a class of flatworms known as trematodes, and commonly as flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction occurs, is a moll ...
in the
family
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Batrachotrematidae. It is the
type-genus of the family, and its
type-species is ''B. petropedatis''. The type-species is the only species of the family found in Africa, (as opposed to south-eastern Asia,) and this distinction has led Cribb (2005)
[Cribb, T. H. (2005). Family Batrachotrematidae Dollfus and Williams, 1966. In Bray, R., Gibson, D. & Jones, A. (Eds.), ''Keys to the Trematoda''. Vol. 2 (pp. 437–442). London, UK: CABI Publishing and The Natural History Museum.] to consider that a family-level distinction may be needed between ''B. petropedatis'' and other species of Batrachotrematidae; however, molecular testing will be needed to decide this point.
[Rizvi, A. N., Bursey, C. R. & Bhutia, P. T. (2012). Three new species of Digenea (Batrachotrematidae) in ''Nanorana minica'' (Anura, Dicroglossidae) from Uttarkhand, India. ''Acta Parasitologica'', 57(2), 154–159] ''Batrachotrema'' also contains ''B. pseudobagri'', the only species of Batrachotrematidae which is parasitic in a fish, rather than in frogs.
Species
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Batrachotrema korbaensis''
Rizvi, Bursey & Bhutia, 2012[
*'' Batrachotrema nagalandensis'' Tandon, Imkongwapang & Prasad, 2005][Tandon, V., Imkongwapang, R. & Prasad, P. (2005). On two new species of the trematode genera ''Opisthioparorchis'' Wang, 1980 and ''Batrachotrema'' Dollfus and Williams, 1966 (Batrachotrematidae), with a report of a Chinese species of ''Opsithioparorchis'' from anuran amphibian hosts in India. ''Zoos' Print Journal'', 20(6), 1883–1887.]
*'' Batrachotrema opistosacca'' Liang & Ke, 1998[Liang, C. & Je, X. (1988). Four new trematodes from mammals and amphibians in Guangdong Province (Trematode: Cathaemasiidae, Batrachotrematidae). ''Annual Bulletin of the Society of Parasitology, Guangdong Province'', 10, 129–133.]
*''Batrachotrema petropedatis
''Batrachotrema'' is a genus of Trematoda, trematodes in the Family (biology), family Batrachotrematidae. It is the Type genus, type-genus of the family, and its Type species, type-species is ''B. petropedatis''. The type-species is the only spec ...
'' Dollfus & Williams, 1966[
*'' Batrachotrema pseudobagri'' Wang, 1981][Wang, P. (1981). Notes on some trematodes from freshwater fishes in Fujian Province. ''Journal of the Fujian Teachers University, Normal Science'', 11, 81–90.]
References
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Plagiorchiida
Plagiorchiida genera