Aquatic nematodes from Ethiopia I: The genus Monhystera Bastion, 1865 (Monhysteridae: Nematoda) with the description of four new species

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 324, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-51

  Abebe, Eyualem ^a,b   Coomans, A ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Aquatic nematodes; Ethiopia; Lakes; Monhystera; New species; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029833896     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00017635     Document Type: Article

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