Diplectanids (Monogenea) parasitic on the gills of the coralgroupers Plectropomus laevis and P. leopardus (Perciformes, Serranidae) off New Caledonia, with the description of five new species and the erection of Echinoplectanum n. g.

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 147-172

  Justine, Jean Lou ^a   Euzet, Louis ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^b Station Mediterraneenne de l'Environnement Littoral   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GILL; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; NEW CALEDONIA; PARASITOLOGY; PERCIFORMES; PHASE CONTRAST MICROSCOPY; TREMATODE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GILLS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; NEW CALEDONIA; PERCIFORMES; TREMATODA;

DIPLECTANIDAE; DIPLECTANUM; EPINEPHELUS MARGINATUS; MONOGENEA; PERCIFORMES; PLECTROPOMUS; PLECTROPOMUS LAEVIS; PLECTROPOMUS LEOPARDUS; PLECTROPOMUS MACULATUS; PYRUS COMMUNIS; SERRANIDAE;

EID: 33745268879     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-006-9028-8     Document Type: Article

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