A revision of Megalonchos Baer & Euzet, 1962 (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae), with the description of two new species and transfer of two species to Biloculuncus Nasin, Caira & Euzet, 1997

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 211-223

  Caira, J N ^a   Reyda, F B ^a   Mega, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CESTODE; CESTODIASIS; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FISH DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; SHARK; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; MALE; SHARKS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BILOCULUNCUS; CESTODA; CHONDRICHTHYES; HEMIGALEIDAE; HEMIPRISTIS ELONGATUS; ONCHOBOTHRIIDAE; TETRAPHYLLIDEA;

EID: 34249998926     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-006-9085-z     Document Type: Article

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