Trematode-induced alterations in shell shape of the mud snail Zeacumantus subcarinatus (Prosobranchia: Batillariidae)

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 989-992

  Hay, K B ^a   Fredensborg, B L ^a   Poulin, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; SHELL; SNAIL;

ACANTHOPARYPHIUM; BATILLARIIDAE; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; GASTROPODA; MARITREMA; MARITREMA NOVAEZEALANDENSIS; MICROPHALLIDAE; PHILOPHTHALMIDAE; PROSOBRANCHIA; TREMATODA; ZEACUMANTUS SUBCARINATUS;

EID: 22944484425     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315405012002     Document Type: Article

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