Helminths of Six Species of Snakes from Honshu Island, Japan

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 49-60

  Goldberg, Stephen R ^a   Bursey, Charles R ^b   Telford Jr , Sam R ^c  

^a WHITTIER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acanthocephala; Colubridae; Helminths; Japan; Nematoda; Snakes; Trematoda; Viperidae

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOCEPHALUS; ACANTHOCEPHALUS LUCIDUS; AMPHIESMA; AMPHIESMA VIBAKARI; BRACHYCEPHALUS; CESTODA; COLUBRIDAE; COSMOCERCOIDES; COSMOCERCOIDES PULCHER; CYCLOPHYLLIDEA; ELAPHE; ELAPHE CLIMACOPHORA; ELAPHE CONSPICILLATA; ELAPHE QUADRIVIRGATA; ENCYCLOMETRA; ENCYCLOMETRA JAPONICA; EUPREPIOPHIS CONSPICILLATUS; GLOYDIUS BLOMHOFFI; GLOYDIUS BLOMHOFFII; HEXAMETRA QUADRICORNIS; INVERTEBRATA; JAPONICA; KALICEPHALUS; KALICEPHALUS BRACHYCEPHALUS; KALICEPHALUS COSTATUS; KALICEPHALUS SINENSIS; MESOCESTOIDES; NEMATODA; OSWALDOCRUZIA SOCIALIS; PARACAPILLARIA KUNTZI; POLYMORPHIDAE; RHABDIAS; RHABDIAS HORIGUTII; RHABDOPHIS TIGRINUS; SERPENTES; TREMATODA; VERMES; VIPERIDAE;

EID: 0842309248     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4084     Document Type: Article

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