occurrence of a plagiorchis species in the small intestine of the black bird [turdus merula]

ABSTRACT

One of the species belonging to genus Plagiorchis [Luhe, 1899]; was recovered from the small intestine of the black bird [Turdus merula] hunted from the locality of Edfina, Behera Governorate, Egypt. The morphological description of this trematode was given and compared with other related species. Indeed, it could be concluded that Egypt is considerd as a new locality and the black bird as a new host for flukes of genus Plagiorchis