Helminths and food habits of lake sturgeon acipenser fulvescens from the Lake Winnebago system, Wisconsin

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 274-282

  Choudhury, Anindo ^a   Bruch, Ron ^b   Dick, Terry A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS; CANIS; CAPILLOSPIRURA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CREPIDOSTOMUM; CREPIDOSTOMUM AURICULATUM; HEXAGENIA; SKRJABINOPSOLUS MANTERI; SPINITECTUS; SPINITECTUS ACIPENSERI; TRUTTAEDACNITIS; TRUTTAEDACNITIS CLITELLARIUS; VERMES;

EID: 0000369528     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2426710     Document Type: Article

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