trematode

/trem-uh-tohd, tree-muh-/US // ˈtrɛm əˌtoʊd, ˈtri mə- //UK // (ˈtrɛməˌtəʊd, ˈtriː-) //

吸虫,吸虫病,吸虫类,吸血虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any parasitic platyhelminth or flatworm of the class Trematoda, having one or more external suckers; fluke.

The closest relatives of that trematode (also recorded from T. ferox) live in marine turtles.
It wouldn't be simple, because this trematode was probably Hepatodirus hominis, and it was tricky.
The trematode parasites from a collection of amphibians and reptiles.
The parasite that's doing the damage is a flatworm, a trematode called Hepatodirus hominis.
Gap′er; Gapes, a disease of birds, owing to the presence of trematode worms in the windpipe, shown by their uneasy gaping.