| molecular taxonomic position of the elephant schistosome, bivitellobilharzia nairi, newly discovered in sri lanka. | bivitellobilharzia nairi (mudaliar and ramanujachar, 1945) dutt and srivastava, 1955 was first recorded in india. a number of adult worm specimens of this schistosome species were recovered from a domestic elephant, which died in 1999 in sri lanka. this is the first report of this schistosome from sri lanka. in the present study, in order to clarify the phylogenetic relationship with other species of schistosomes, sequences from the second internal transcribed spacer (its2) of the ribosomal gene ... | 2004 | 14984837 |