New genus and species of Aporocotylidae (Digenea) from a basal actinopterygian, the American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, (Acipenseriformes: Polyodontidae) from the Mississippi Delta

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 487-495

  Bullard, Stephen A ^a   Snyder, Scott D ^a,b   Jensen, Kirsten ^a,c   Overstreet, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PARASITIC DISEASE; TAXONOMY; TELEOST;

ACIPENSERICOLA PETERSONI; ACIPENSERIFORMES; APOROCOTYLIDAE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGENEA; FEMALE; FISH; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MOUTH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY; POLYODON SPATHULA; POLYODONTIDAE; SPECIES COMPARISON; TELEOST; TREMATODE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MISSISSIPPI; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

LOUISIANA; MISSISSIPPI DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER BREVIROSTRUM; ACIPENSERIFORMES; ANGUILLIFORMES; APOROCOTYLIDAE; CHIMAEROHEMECUS TRONDHEIMENSIS; PARACARDICOLOIDES YAMAGUTII; POLYODON SPATHULA; POLYODONTIDAE (FISH); SPIRORCHIS SP.; TELEOSTEI;

EID: 43949115573     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1323.1     Document Type: Article

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