Diversity 'down under': monogeneans in the Antipodes (Australia) with a prediction of monogenean biodiversity worldwide

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1481-1493

  Whittington, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity in Australia; Global biodiversity; Great Barrier Reef; Heron Island; History; Monogenea

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; PARASITE; PREDICTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AUSTRALIA; BIODIVERSITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FISH; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; SPECIES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; FISHES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; TREMATODA;

AUSTRALIA;

CONCINNOCOTYLA AUSTRALENSIS; DIPNOI; ENCOTYLLABE; MONOGENEA; NEOCERATODUS FORSTERI; PISCES; POLYSTOMATIDAE;

EID: 0032191082     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-7519(98)00064-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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