Diversity of metazoan parasites of the African catfish Clarias gariepinus (Burchell, 1822) as indicators of pollution in a subtropical African river system

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-227

  Madanire Moyo, G ^a,b   Barson, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; CARYOPHYLLAEUS; CATFISH; CHONOPELTIS; CONTRACAECUM; COPEPOD; DIPLOSTOMUM; DOLOPS RANARUM; ECTOPARASITE; ENDOPARASITE; LAMPROGLENA CLARIAE; LYTOCESTUS; MACROGYRODACTYLUS; METAZOON; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PARACAMALLANUS CYATHOPHARYNX; PLATYHELMINTH; POLYONCHOBOTHRIUM; PREVALENCE; PROCAMALLANUS LAEVIONCHUS; PROTEOCEPHALUS; RIVER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WATER POLLUTION INDICATOR; ZIMBABWE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECTOPARASITOSIS; FISH DISEASE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

CARYOPHYLLAEUS SP.; CHONOPELTIS; CLARIAS; CLARIAS GARIEPINUS; CONTRACAECUM; COPEPODA; CYATHOPHARYNX; DIPLOSTOMUM; LAMPROGLENA CLARIAE; LYTOCESTUS; MACROGYRODACTYLUS; METAZOA; NEMATODA; OLIGOCHAETA (METAZOA); PLATYHELMINTHES; POLYONCHOBOTHRIUM; PROCAMALLANUS; PROTEOCEPHALUS SP.;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CATFISHES; ECTOPARASITIC INFESTATIONS; FISH DISEASES; PARASITES; PARASITIC DISEASES, ANIMAL; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77954728184     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X09990563     Document Type: Article

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