| a review of the apocreadiidae skrjabin, 1942 (trematoda: digenea) and description of australian species. | the apocreadiidae is reviewed and is considered to include genera recognised previously within the families apocreadiidae, homalometridae, schistorchiidae, sphincterostomatidae and trematobrienidae. key features of the family are extensive vitelline follicles, eye-spot pigment dispersed in forebody, i-shaped excretory vesicle, no cirrus-sac and genital pore opening immediately anterior to the ventral sucker (usually) or immediately posterior to it (postporus manter, 1949). three subfamilies and ... | 1999 | 10619071 |
| infracommunity structure of parasites of hemigymnus melapterus (pisces: labridae) from lizard island, australia: the importance of habitat and parasite body size. | this study describes the community of all metazoan parasites from 14 individuals of thicklip wrasse, hemigymnus melapterus, from lizard island, australia. all fish were parasitized, and 4,649 parasite individuals were found. twenty-six parasite species were identified although only 6 species were abundant and prevalent: gnathiid isopods, the copepod hatschekia hemigymni, the digenean callohelmis pichelinae, and 3 morphotypes of tetraphyllidean cestode larvae. we analyzed whether the body size an ... | 2005 | 15856869 |