Species belonging to the family Dioctophymatoidea ( Dioctophyme renale ). Hystrichis tricolor appears three-colored, reaches a size of 40 mm in females and 25 mm in males, and lives in the digestive stomach of wild and domestic birds in Europe. Intermediate hosts are earthworms.
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Canaris AG et al (2010) A predictable suite of helminth parasites in long-billed dowitcher (Limnodromus scolopaceus). J Parasitol 96:1060–1065
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Hystrichis tricolor . In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43978-4_1563
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