Survey of the metazoan ectoparasites of the European flounder Platichthys flesus (Linnaeus, 1758) along the North-Central Portuguese Coast

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1218-1222

  Cavaleiro, Francisca I ^a   Santos, Maria J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOPARASITE; FLATFISH; METAZOAN; NEW RECORD; TAXONOMY;

ACANTHOCHONDRIA CORNUTA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BOMOLOCHIDAE; CALIGUS DIAPHANUS; CHONDRACANTHIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPEPOD; CYMOTHOIDAE; ECTOPARASITE; FISH; FLATFISH; FLOUNDER; HOLOBOMOLOCHUS CONFUSUS; ISOPODA; LARNAEOCERA BRACHIALIS; LEPEOPHTHEIRIRUS PECTORALIS; METAZOON; NEROCILA ORBIGNYI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PORTUGAL; PRANIZA LARVAE;

ANIMALS; COPEPODA; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FEMALE; FISH DISEASES; FLOUNDER; ISOPODA; MALE; PORTUGAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; NORTH SEA;

ACANTHOCHONDRIA CORNUTA; BOMOLOCHIDAE; CALIGIDAE; CALIGUS; CALIGUS DIAPHANUS; CHONDRACANTHIDAE; COPEPODA; CYMOTHOIDAE; GNATHIIDAE; HOLOBOMOLOCHUS CONFUSUS; ISOPODA; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS PECTORALIS; LERNAEOCERA BRANCHIALIS; METAZOA; NEROCILA ORBIGNYI; PLATICHTHYS FLESUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI; PRANIZA;

EID: 36749010187     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1071R1.1     Document Type: Article

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