Female morphology of Philometra hyderabadensis Rasheed, 1963 (Nematoda: Philometridae), a little-known parasite of the catfish Wallago attu Bloch & Schneider in India, as revealed by SEM observations

Systematic Parasitology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-122

  Moravec, František ^a   Chavan, Shivaji P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b SWAMI RAMANAND TEERTH MARATHWADA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATFISH; CLASSIFICATION; DRACUNCULOIDEA; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INDIA; PARASITOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CATFISHES; DRACUNCULOIDEA; FEMALE; INDIA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

NEMATODA; PHILOMETRA (NEMATODE); PHILOMETRIDAE; WALLAGO; WALLAGO ATTU;

EID: 84866439889     PISSN: 01655752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11230-012-9375-6     Document Type: Article

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