Egg-feeding in the freshwater piscicolid leech Cystobranchus virginicus (Annelida, Hirudinea)

Invertebrate Biology

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 50-56

  Light, Jessica E ^a   Fiumera, Anthony C ^b,c   Porter, Brady A ^b,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campostoma; Hirudinea; Moxostoma; Nocomis; Piscicolidae

Indexed keywords

ANNELIDA; BREVICEPS; CAMPOSTOMA; CAMPOSTOMA ANOMALUM; CYSTOBRANCHUS VIRGINICUS; HIRUDINEA; HIRUDINIDA; MOXOSTOMA; MOXOSTOMA ANISURUM; MOXOSTOMA BREVICEPS; MOXOSTOMA CARINATUM; NOCOMIS; NOCOMIS LEPTOCEPHALUS; PISCICOLIDAE;

EID: 19544391217     PISSN: 10778306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7410.2005.1241-06.x     Document Type: Article

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