A synthesis of our current knowledge of philometrid nematodes, a group of increasingly important fish parasites

Folia Parasitologica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 81-101

  Moravec, František ^a   de Buron, Isaure ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Fish; Morphology; Nematoda; Parasites; Pathology; Philometridae; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881199845     PISSN: 00155683     EISSN: 18036465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2013.010     Document Type: Article

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