Habitat and host specificity of trematode metacercariae in fiddler crabs from mangrove habitats in Florida

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 999-1005

  Smith, Nancy F ^a   Ruiz, Gregory M ^a,b   Reed, Sherry A ^a,c  

^a ECKERD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLATWORM; HABITAT SELECTION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LARVA; MANGROVE; SALTMARSH;

ARTICLE; CRAB; HABITAT; HOST RANGE; MANGROVE; METACERCARIA; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PROBOLOCORYPHE LANCEOLATA; RIVER; UCA RAPAX; UCA SPECIOSA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PREVALENCE; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREMATODA; WETLANDS;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; INDIAN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LANCEOLATA; OCYPODIDAE; TREMATODA; UCA; UCA RAPAX; UCA SPECIOSA;

EID: 36749047954     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1122R.1     Document Type: Article

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