Helminth parasites of the tropical gar, Atractosteus tropicus Gill, from Tabasco, Mexico

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 260-265

  Salgado Maldonado, Guillermo ^a   Moravec, Frantisek ^a,b   Cabañas Carranza, Guillermina ^a   Aguilar Aguilar, Rogelio ^a   Sánchez Nava, Petra ^a   Báez Valé, Rafael ^a   Scholz, Tomás ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTICLE; ATRACTOSTEUS TOPICUS; CESTODE; FISH; GILL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREY SELECTION; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; MEXICO; PREVALENCE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; TABASCO;

ATRACTOSTEUS; ATRACTOSTEUS TROPICUS; CESTODA; CONTRACAECUM; NEMATODA; PROTEOCEPHALUS; TREMATODA; VERMES;

EID: 2442496191     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-56R2     Document Type: Article

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