Melanoides tuberculata (mollusca: Thiaridae) harboring renicolid cercariae (trematoda: Renicolidae) in Brazil

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 784-787

  Pinto, H A ^a   Melo, A L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENDOPARASITE; FLATWORM; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORPHOLOGY; NEW RECORD; SNAIL;

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CERCARIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXPERIMENTAL INFECTION; GUPPY; GYMNOCEPHALOUS CERCARIAE; LARVA; LIVER; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; METACERCARIA; MOLLUSC; NONHUMAN; PARASITE EXAMINATION; TREMATODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; FISH DISEASE; GASTROPOD; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MALE; OOCYST; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

BELO HORIZONTE; BRAZIL; MINAS GERAIS;

MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; MOLLUSCA; POECILIA RETICULATA; RENICOLA; RENICOLATA; RENICOLIDAE; THIARIDAE; TREMATODA;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CERCARIA; FISH DISEASES; GASTROPODA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; LIVER; MALE; METACERCARIAE; OOCYSTS; POECILIA; PREVALENCE; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84867471588     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: 19372345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-2937.1     Document Type: Article

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