Redescription of the frog bladder fluke gorgoderina attenuata from the northern leopard Frog, rana pipiens

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 665-668

  Bolek, Matthew G ^a,b   Snyder, Scott D ^a,c   Janovy Jr , John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPSIS; FROG; MORPHOLOGY; NEMATODE; NOMENCLATURE; TYPE SPECIMEN;

ARTICLE; BLADDER DISEASE; FROG; GORGODERINA ATTENUATA; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLADDER; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ARKANSAS; NEBRASKA; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANURA; GORGODERINA; GORGODERINA ATTENUATA; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA PIPIENS;

ANIMALS; RANA PIPIENS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES;

EID: 73949137295     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-1953.1     Document Type: Article

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