Redescription of corallobothrium solidum (Cestoda: Proteocephalidea) and erection of a new genus, Essexiella, for tapeworms from channel catfishes (Ictaluridae)

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1142-1151

  Scholz, Tom ^a   De Chambrier, Alain ^a,b   Mariaux, Jean ^a,b   Kuchta, Roman ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG; FLATWORM; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW RECORD; TAXONOMY; TELEOST;

ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CESTODE; CHANNEL CATFISH; CORALLOBOTHRIUM SOLIDUM; ESSEXIELLA; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SPHINCTER;

ANIMALS; CESTODA; CESTODE INFECTIONS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EGYPT; FISH DISEASES; ICTALURIDAE; INTESTINES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RIVERS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S;

AFRICA;

CESTODA; CORALLOBOTHRIUM; CORALLOBOTHRIUM FIMBRIATUM; CORALLOBOTHRIUM PARAFIMBRIATUM; CORALLOBOTHRIUM SOLIDUM; CORALLOTAENIA; ICTALURIDAE; ICTALURUS PUNCTATUS; MALAPTERURIDAE; MALAPTERURUS ELECTRICUS; MEGATHYLACOIDES; MEGATHYLACUS; PARAPROTEOCEPHALUS; PROTEOCEPHALIDEA;

EID: 84855381491     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2705.1     Document Type: Article

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