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On Three New Species of Strigeid Trematodes from an African Crocodile and the Erection of a New Family, Neostrigeidae*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

B. Bisseru
Affiliation:
From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Extract

Neostrigea africana gen.et sp.nov., Neostrigea leiperi gen.et sp.nov. and Prostrigea arcuata gen.et sp.nov. are described from the intestine of Crocodilus niloticus, Kafue River, Northern Rhodesia. The three species are included in two new genera which are placed in a new family Neostrigeidae.

Type
Research Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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