Schistosoma ovuncatum

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] 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.

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