Endoparasites of plethodontid salamanders from Paradise Brook, New Hampshire

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1193-1195

  Muzzall, Patrick M ^a   Peebles, C Robert ^a   Burton, Thomas M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DUSKY SALAMANDER; ENDOPARASITE; PARASITISM; RED-BACKED SALAMANDER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; SALAMANDER;

ANIMALS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; NEMATODE INFECTIONS; NEW HAMPSHIRE; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; URODELA;

USA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, PARADISE BROOK;

AMPHIUMA MEANS; ANIMALIA; BATRACHOLANDROS; BATRACHOLANDROS MAGNAVULVARIS; BOTHRIOCEPHALUS; BOTHRIOCEPHALUS RARUS; BRACHYCOELIUM; BRACHYCOELIUM STORERIAE; CAUDATA; CEPEDIETTA MICHIGANENSIS; DESMOGNATHUS FUSCUS; EURYCEA BISLINEATA; FALCAUSTRA; GYRINOPHILUS PORPHYRITICUS; OMEIA; PLETHODON CINEREUS; PLETHODONTIDAE;

EID: 0031467454     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3284387     Document Type: Article

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