Two new species of entobdelline skin parasites (Monogenea, Capsalidae) from the blotched fantail ray, Taeniura meyeni, in the Pacific Ocean, with comments on spermatophores and the male copulatory apparatus

Acta Parasitologica

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-21

  Whittington, Ian D ^a,b   Kearn, Graham C ^c  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cirrus; Dasyatidae; Entobdellinae; Functional morphology; Monogenea; Neoentobdella; Penis; Platyhelminthes; Spermatophores; Stingrays

Indexed keywords

CAPSALIDAE; DASYATIDAE; ENTOBDELLA SQUAMULA; MONOGENEA; PISCES; PLATYHELMINTHES; TAENIURA MEYENI;

EID: 64649106342     PISSN: 12302821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11686-009-0013-7     Document Type: Article

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