A new species of Petasiger (digenea: echinostomiformes: echinostomatidae) in the Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis, (aves: pelecaniformes: pelecanidae), from the Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1465-1467

  Zamparo, David ^a   Overstreet, Robin M ^a,b   Brooks, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Gulf Coast Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PELICAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

NEW SPECIES;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSTA RICA; ECHINOSTOMA; FEMALE; HOST; MALE; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PETASIGER CARIBBENSIS; PETASIGER COMBESI; PETASIGER NOVEMDECIM;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; COSTA RICA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ECHINOSTOMA; ECHINOSTOMATIDAE; PELECANIDAE; PELECANIFORMES; PELECANUS OCCIDENTALIS; PETASIGER;

EID: 32544437554     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-3483.1     Document Type: Article

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