Helminth fauna of the yellow-legged gull Larus cachinnans in Galicia, north-west Spain

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 361-371

  Sanmartin M L ^a   Cordeiro, J A ^a   Alvarez M F ^a   Leiro, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FISH; HELMINTH; LARUS CACHINNANS; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; ESOPHAGUS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; INTESTINAL DISEASES, PARASITIC; INTESTINES; SPAIN;

ACOTYLEA; ANISAKIS SIMPLEX; ARHYTHMORHYNCHUS LONGICOLLIS; BRACHYLAIMA; BRACHYLECITHUM MICROTESTICULATUM; CARDIOCEPHALOIDES LONGICOLLIS; CESTODA; CONTRACAECUM RUDOLPHII; COSMOCEPHALUS OBVELATUS; CRYPTOCOTYLE CONCAVUM; CRYPTOCOTYLE LINGUA; DIPLOSTOMUM SPATHACEUM; ECHINOSTEPHILLA; EUCOLEUS CONTORTUS; GALACTOSOMUM PHALACROCORACIS; GIGANTOBILHARZIA; GYMNOPHALLUS DELICIOSUS; GYNAECOTYLA; HIMASTHLA ELONGATA; HIMASTHLA QUISSETENSIS; KNIPOWITSCHIATREMA NICOLAI; LARUS CACHINNANS; LARUS MICHAHELLIS; LEVINSENIELLA PROPINQUA; MARITREMA; MICROPHALLUS PRIMAS; MICROPHALLUS SIMILIS; MICROSOMACANTHUS; MOLLUSCA; NEMATODA; ORNITHOBILHARZIA CANALICULATA; PARACUARIA ADUNCA; PAROCHIS ACANTHUS; PHAGICOLA; PSILOSTOMUM BREVICOLLE; RENICOLA; STEPHANOPRORA; TETRABOTHRIUS EROSTRIS; TETRAMERES; TREMATODA; VERMES; WARDIUM CIRROSA;

EID: 29144519394     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/JOH2005309     Document Type: Article

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