Helminth infracommunities in Litoria genimaculata (Amphibia: Anura) from Birthday Creek, an upland rainforest stream in the northern Queensland, Australia

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1381-1385

  Barton, Diane P ^a   Richards, Stephen J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

amphibia; Australia; digenea; diversity; helminth; infracommunities; Litoria genimaculata; monogenea; nematoda

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CESTODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; FROG; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HELMINTH; INTESTINE INFECTION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; CESTODA; COSMOCERCA; LITORIA GENIMACULATA; MESOCOELIUM; MONOGENEA; NEMATODA; ONCHOCERCIDAE; PARAPOLYSTOMA; UNIDENTIFIED NEMATODE; VERMES;

EID: 0030483415     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(96)00121-X     Document Type: Article

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