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A Redescription of Distomum incommodum Leidy, from Alligator mississippiensis, and Creation of a new Genus (Homoscaphis) for it

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

William P. N. Canavan
William P. N. Canavan
Affiliation:
Bacteriology Department, University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine.
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Abstract

Distomum incommodum (Leidy 1856) from mouth of Alligator mississippiensis is found to belong to the family Clinostomidae. A new genus Homoscaphis Canavan 1933 is erected for it, a diagnosis of which is given, with a redescription and illustration of the species.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , December 1933 , pp. 501 - 509
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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