Taxonomic status, redescription, and surface ultrastructure of Ascocotyle (Phagicola) Pindoramensis n. comb. (Digenea: Heterophyidae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-508

  Simões, Susana Balmant Emerique ^a   Scholz, Tomáš ^a,b   Barbosa, Helene Santos ^a   Santos, Cláudia Portes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; FLATWORM; MORPHOLOGY; RODENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASCOCOTYLE PINDORAMENSIS; BRAZIL; CERCARIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; FISH; HAMSTER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHAGICOLA; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; TREMATODE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CRICETINAE; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; FISH DISEASES; MESOCRICETUS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; POECILIA; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL]; SOUTH AMERICA;

ASCOCOTYLE; CRICETINAE; DIGENEA (FLUKES); HETEROPHYIDAE; PHAGICOLA; PHALLOPTYCHUS JANUARIUS; POECILIA VIVIPARA; POECILIIDAE; PYGIDIOPSIS; PYGIDIOPSIS PINDORAMENSIS; TREMATODA;

EID: 33746472919     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-757R.1     Document Type: Article

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