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A group of scientists from UC Riverside confirmed the presence of Heterobilharzia americana — a flatworm known as liver fluke — along the banks of the Colorado River in Southern California.
A parasite that sickened 10 dogs and killed another in Southern California was found in the Colorado River in Blythe, its first known presence in the state.
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Euhaplorchis californiensis is a trophically transmitted parasite (TTP) that lives in the salt-water marshes of Southern California, United States. It lives in three hosts: shorebirds, horn snails, and killifish.
Platydemus manokwari, also known as the New Guinea flatworm, is a species of large predatory land flatworm. Native to New Guinea , it has been accidentally introduced to the soil of many countries, including the United States. [ 3 ]
This flatworm is native to the western seaboard of North America, its range extending from Sitka in Alaska to Baja California peninsula in Mexico. It is found on the lower shore and in the shallow sub-littoral zone, under rocks, on pilings, on the fouled hulls of boats and among mussels and rock-boring bivalves. [2] [3] Kachemak Bay State Park ...
Hyman also identified B. adventitium worms in California in 1943, “which showed the worm was already widely distributed across the country,” Ducey said. However, after Hyman’s discovery ...
Geoplanidae is a family of flatworms known commonly as land planarians or land flatworms. [ 2 ] These flatworms are mainly predators of other invertebrates, which they hunt, attack and capture using physical force and the adhesive and digestive properties of their mucus. [ 3 ]