Ultrastructure of the forebody and foregut tegument and eccrine gland cells of Crepidostomum metoecus (Trematoda: Digenea: Allocreadiidae)

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 291-294

  Žd'Árská, Zdeňka ^a   Nebesářová, Jana ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Crepidostomum metoecus; Digenea; Eccrine gland cells; Forebody and foregut tegument; TEM; Trematoda

Indexed keywords

ALLOCREADIIDAE; ANIMALIA; ASPIDOGASTREA; CREPIDOSTOMUM; CREPIDOSTOMUM METOECUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 0036945005     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2002.053     Document Type: Article

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