A new genus and species of tetraphyllidean cestode from the Spadenose shark, Scoliodon laticaudus, in Malaysian Borneo

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 42-48

  Caira, Janine N ^a   Durkin, Siobhan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiveristy; Borneo; New genus; New species; Phyllobothriidae; Ruhnkecestus latipi; Sarawak; Scoliodon laticaudus; Spiral intestine; Tetraphyllidea

Indexed keywords

CANDIDATUS MICROTHRIX; CARCHARHINIDAE; CARCHARHINIFORMES; CESTODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; ELASMOBRANCHII; PARAORYGMATOBOTHRIUM; PHYLLOBOTHRIIDAE; PHYLLOBOTHRIINAE; SCOLIODON; SCOLIODON LATICAUDUS; TETRAPHYLLIDEA; VITELLARIA;

EID: 33745059637     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4185.1     Document Type: Article

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