Metazoan parasites of young-of-the-year paddlefish from Lewis and Clark Lake, Nebraska, U.S.A.

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 227-229

  Pracheil, Brenda M ^a   Mestl, Gerald E ^b   Muzzall, Patrick M ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

Camallanus; Contracaecum; Diclybothrium hamulatum; Ergasilus elongatus; Hirudinea; Lewis and Clark Lake; Marsipometra; Missouri River; Nebraska; Paddlefish; Parasites; Piscicolidae; Polyodon spathula; Rhabdochona decaturensis; Spinitectus; United States

Indexed keywords

CAMALLANUS; CONTRACAECUM; DICLYBOTHRIUM HAMULATUM; ERGASILUS; HIRUDINEA; HIRUDINIDA; MARSIPOMETRA; METAZOA; NEMATODA; PISCICOLIDAE; POLYODON SPATHULA; RHABDOCHONA; SPINITECTUS; VERMES;

EID: 24944520146     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4176     Document Type: Article

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