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Species of Ascocotyle Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Heterophyidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, and notes on their life-cycles
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The heron Casmerodius albus represents a new definitive host of adults of all the above-mentioned species excluding A. (A.) chandleri, which is reported from Mexico for the first time.
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Monogeneans of freshwater fishes from cenotes (sinkholes) of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.
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The findings support the idea about the dispersion of freshwater fishes and their monogenean parasites from South America through Central America to southeastern Mexico, following the emergence of the Panamanian isthmus between 2 and 5 million years ago.
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Cenotes (sinkholes) of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, as a habitat of adult trematodes of fish.
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Examination of a total of 581 fish specimens of 15 species from 39 cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico, revealed the presence of 10 species of adult trematodes, including Saccocoelioides sogandaresi, reported from Mexico for the first time.
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Nematodes parasitic in fishes of cenotes (= sinkholes) of the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Part 1. Adults.
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The nematode fauna of fishes in cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula shows its appurtenance to the Neotropical fauna with close affinities with that of fish nematodes from South America, but with a considerable degree of endemism.
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Cestoda and Acanthocephala of fishes from cenotes (= sinkholes) of Yucatan, Mexico.
Helminth parasites of Epinephelus morio (Pisces: Serranidae) of the Yucatan Peninsula, southeastern Mexico.
The present paper comprises a systematic survey of helminths from 202 red groupers, Epinephelus morio (Valenciennes) (Pisces: Serranidae), the most important commercial marine fish in the region,…
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Revision of Genarchella species (Digenea: Derogenidae) parasitizing freshwater fishes in Mexico and Central America
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All species of the genus Genarchella are redescribed and the distribution and host specificity of individual taxa are briefly discussed.
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Some endohelminths from the freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta from Yucatan, Mexico
An examination of three specimens of the freshwater turtle Trachemys scripta (Schoepf) from a small lake in central Yucatan revealed the presence of the following four helminth species parasitic in…
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Nematodes parasitic in fishes of cenotes (= sinkholes) of the Peninsula of Yucatan, Mexico. Part 2. Larvae.
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A systematic survey of larval nematodes collected from fishes from cenotes (= sinkholes) of the Peninsula of Yucatan, southern Mexico, in 1993-1994, finding that fishes harbouring the larvae of these parasites serve as paratenic hosts, being mostly an important source of infection for the definitive hosts.
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First description of the male and redescription of the female of Paratrichosomarecurvum (Nematoda: Capillariidae), a skin-invading parasite of crocodiles in Mexico
Abstract The first description of the male and a redescription of the female of the nematode Paratrichosomarecurvum (Solger, 1877), a parasite of the abdominal skin of crocodiles, are presented on…
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