Dactylogyrids (Monogenoidea) parasitizing the gills of astyanax spp. (characidae) from panama and Southeast Mexico, a new species of diaphorocleidus and a proposal for characithecium N. Gen

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-55

  Mendoza Franco, Edgar F ^a,b   Reina, Ruth G ^a   Torchin, Mark E ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BODY SIZE; FLATWORM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; NEW SPECIES; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY; TELEOST; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ARTICLE; ASTYANAX AENEUS; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS; ASTYANAX ORTHODUS; BODY SIZE; CHARACITHECIUM COSTARICENSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; DIAPHOROCLEIDUS KABATAI; DIAPHOROCLEIDUS ORTHODUSUS; FISH; GILL; GONAD; HELMINTH; MEXICO; NONHUMAN; PALOMBITREMA HETEROANCISTRIUM; PANAMA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; UROCLEIDOIDES STROMBICIRRUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; PLATYHELMINTH; TREMATODIASIS;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ASTYANAX; ASTYANAX AENEUS; ASTYANAX FASCIATUS; CHARACIDAE; DACTYLOGYRIDAE; DIAPHOROCLEIDUS; DIAPHOROCLEIDUS KABATAI; UROCLEIDOIDES;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; FISH DISEASES; FISHES; FRESH WATER; GILLS; MEXICO; PANAMA; PLATYHELMINTHS; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 64549121510     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1592.1     Document Type: Article

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