Helminths from the hellbender, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis (Urodela: Cryptobranchidae), in Missouri, U.S.A.

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-65

  Hasegawa, Hideo ^a   Ikeda, Yatsukaho ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amphibia; Cryptobranchus alleganiensis; Falcaustra catesbeianae; Hellbender; Helminths; Kamegainema cingula; Missouri; Nematoda; Proteocephalid cestode; U.S.A.; Urodela; Urodelnema mackini

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; CAUDATA; CESTODA; CRYPTOBRANCHIDAE; CRYPTOBRANCHUS ALLEGANIENSIS; FALCAUSTRA; FALCAUSTRA CATESBEIANAE; KAMEGAINEMA CINGULA; NEMATODA; PROTEOCEPHALIDAE; URODELNEMA MACKINI; VERMES;

EID: 0037277708     PISSN: 1049233X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/1525-2647(2003)070[0060:hfthca]2.0.co;2     Document Type: Article

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