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Comparative phylogeography reveals host generalists, specialists and cryptic diversity: Hexabothriid, microbothriid and monocotylid monogeneans from rhinobatid rays in southern Australia.
International journal for parasitology - 1 Nov 2008
Glennon Vanessa, Perkins Elizabeth M, Chisholm Leslie A, Whittington Ian D
Abstract excerpt
The phylogeography and host specificity of three monogenean species infecting different sites on the southern fiddler ray, Trygonorrhina fasciata (Rhinobatidae) in South Australia (SA) were studied: Branchotenthes octohamatus (Hexabothriidae: gills), Calicotyle australis (Monocotylidae: cloaca) and Pseudoleptobothrium aptychotremae (Microbothriidae: skin). Five rhinobatid species (Aptychotrema vincentiana, T....
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