Observations on the seasonal occurrence of two species of transversotrematid digenea parasitising the sparid fish Acanthopagrus australis in Moreton Bay, Eastern Australia

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 205-210

  Roubal, Frank R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

A ustralia; Acanthopagrus; Digenea; Ecology; Moreton Bay; Prototransversotrema; Sparidae; Transversotrema

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FISH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; SEASON; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; FISHES; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SEASONS; TREMATODA;

ACANTHOPAGRUS; ACANTHOPAGRUS AUSTRALIS; ANIMALIA; PROTOTRANSVERSOTREMA; PROTOTRANSVERSOTREMA STEERI; SPARIDAE; TRANSVERSOTREMA; TRANSVERSOTREMA LICINUM; TRANSVERSOTREMATIDAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 0031724085     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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