Digenean trematode species in the cockle cerastoderma edule: Identification key and distribution along the North-Eastern Atlantic Shoreline

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 543-556

  De Montaudouin, Xavier ^a   Thieltges, David W ^b   Gam, Mériame ^c   Krakau, Manuela ^d   Pina, Suzana ^e   Bazairi, Hocein ^c   Dabouineau, Laurent ^f   Russell Pinto, Fernanda ^e   Jensen, K Thomas ^g  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES AIN CHOCK   (Morocco)

^d ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f Campus de la Tour d'Auvergne   (France)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cerastoderma edule; Identification key; Latitudinal patterns; Parasitism

Indexed keywords

FLATWORM; IDENTIFICATION KEY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERMEDIATE HOST; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; PARASITISM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST);

AVES; CERASTODERMA EDULE; TREMATODA;

EID: 69749125070     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: 14697769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409003130     Document Type: Review

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