Three new species of ciliated Protozoa from the hindgut of both white and black wild African rhinoceroses

Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 87-95

  Van Hoven, W ^a   Gilchrist, Frances M C ^a   Liebenberg, H ^a   Van Der Merwe, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blepharoconus dicerotos n.sp; Blepharosphaera ceratotherii n.sp; Didesmis synciliata n.sp; Hindgut fermenting Protozoa; Rhinoceros

Indexed keywords

DIDESMIS; DIDESMIS OVALIS; MYXOZOA; PROTOZOA; RHINOCEROS; RHINOCEROTIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CECUM; CILIATE; CLASSIFICATION; COLON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTESTINE INFECTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PERISSODACTYLA; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CECUM; CILIOPHORA; COLON; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINE, SMALL; PERISSODACTYLA; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; STOMACH;

EID: 0032093180     PISSN: 00302465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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