Galactosomum otepotiense n. sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) infecting four different species of fish-eating birds in New Zealand: genetically identical but morphologically variable

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Galactosomum otepotiense n. sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) infecting four different species of fish-eating birds in New Zealand: genetically identical but morphologically variable

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Trematodes of the genus Galactosomum are cosmopolitan parasites that infect the intestines of fish-eating birds and mammals. Adults of named Galactosomum species have not been recorded from bird hosts in New Zealand, despite their cercarial stage being known from various studies of the first intermediate host, Zeacumantus subcarinatus. Here we describe a new species of Galactosomum infecting four different piscivorous birds in New Zealand: Caspian terns, red-billed and black-backed gulls and ...

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Date created

2020-01-01

Creator

Presswell, B / Bennett, J

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/28066

Related subjects

Animals / Australia / Cercaria / Charadriiformes - parasitology / Fishes - parasitology / Heterophyidae - anatomy & histology / Heterophyidae - classification / Heterophyidae - genetics / Intestines - parasitology / Larva / New Zealand / Phylogeny

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