Standard nomenclature and metrics of plane shapes for use in gregarine taxonomy

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-140

  Clopton, Richard E ^a  

^a PERU STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Apicomplexa; Eugregarinorida; Gregarine; Nomenclature; Shape; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

APICOMPLEXA;

EID: 3543038862     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4151     Document Type: Article

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5. Clopton, R. E. 2004. Calyxocephalus karyopera g. nov., sp. nov. (Eugregarinorida: Actinocephalidae: Actinocephalinae) from the ebony jewelwing damselfly Calopteryx maculata (Zygoptera: Calopterygidae) in southeast Nebraska: implications for mechanical prey-vector stabilization of exogenous gregarine development. Comparative Parasitology 71:141-153.
6. Clopton, R. E., T. J. Cook, and J. L. Cook. 2004. Naiadocystis phykoterion n. gen., n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Hirmocystidae) from the Mexican Pygmy Grasshopper Paratettix mexicanus (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) in the Texas Big Thicket with recognition of three previously described species of Naiadocystis. Journal of Parasitology 90:301-307.
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