| experimental verification of the metacercarial stage of rhipidocotyle lepisostei (trematoda: bucephalidae) with notes on the natural occurrence of its adult stage in gars in texas and virginia. | bucephalid metacercariae found encysted in the caudal fin rays of striped mullet (mugil cephalus) were fed to bucephalid-free spotted gars (lepisosteus oculatus) in the laboratory. gravid specimens of rhipidocotyle lepisostei were recovered from the intestinal tracts of 2 of 3 gars from 7 to 28 days later. further attempts to complete the entire life cycle were unsuccessful. natural infections of adult r. lepisostei were found in the type host, the alligator gar lepisosteus spatula, from galvest ... | 1990 | 2319436 |
| macroderoides texanus n. sp. (digenea: macroderoididae) from alligator gar, atractosteus spatula in texas. | macroderoides texanus n. sp. is described based on 16 specimens collected from the intestine of the north american alligator gar, atractosteus spatula. of the five established species of macroderoides, the new species is morphologically most similar to macroderoides spiniferus and macroderoides trilobatus. m. texanus n. sp. differs from m. spiniferus by having the ovary situated immediately posterior to the cirrus sac rather than at mid-way between the cirrus sac and anterior testis, the ventral ... | 2008 | 18762983 |