Therodamas tamarae, a new species of copepod (Poecilostomatoida: Ergasilidae) parasitic on Plagioscion squamosissimus (Heckel) from the Araguaia River, Brazil; with a key to the species of the genus

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 325, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-82

  Da Motta Amado, Maria Auxiliadora Pinto ^a   Falavigna Da Rocha, Carlos Eduarde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonicopei dae; Brazil; Copepoda; Ergasilidae; Poecilostomatoida; Therodamas; Therodamasidae

Indexed keywords

PLAGIOSCION SQUAMOSISSIMUS; THERODAMAS TAMARAE; THERODAMAS ELONGATUS; THERODAMAS FLUVIATILIS;

HOST-PARASITE RELATIONSHIP; NEW SPECIES; PARASITE;

BRAZIL, GOIAS STATE, ARAGUAIA RIVER;

EID: 0030426862     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf00023669     Document Type: Article

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