Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Zonorchis meyeri
Trematoda zonorchis
Endoparasite
This parasite found in the gall bladder of a rail (Laterallus jamaicensis - possibly it was a L. spilonotus, endemic species).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Platyhelminthes
Class
Trematoda
Order
Plagiorchiida
Family
Dicrocoeliidae
Genus
Zonorchis
Species
meyeri
Taxon category: Accepted
Origin: Native
- Patricio D. Carrera-Játiva Gustavo Jiménez-Uzcátegui (2023) Current Knowledge of Helminths of Wild Birds in Ecuador. Birds 2024, 5, 102–114. https://doi.org/10.3390/birds5010007
- Swarth, H.S. (1931) The Avifauna of the Galapagos Islands. Occ. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. 18: 1-299.
- Vercammen-Grandjean, P.H. (1966) Zonorchis meyeri, new species, a parasite of the gall bladder of a rail in the Galápagos Islands (Trematoda: Dicrocoeliidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series, 33(4): 65-68.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Zonorchis meyeri", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=12421. Accessed 1 November 2026.