Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of

 

Concepts in Animal Parasitology Textbook

Date of this Version

2024

Document Type

Book Chapter

Citation

Chapter 21, Concepts in Animal Parasitology, pages 283–288

Textbook

Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: Zea Books, 2024

chapter doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap021

Comments

Copyright 2024, the authors and editors. Open access

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International

Abstract

An overview of the cestode (tapeworm) order Bothriocephalidea Kuchta et al., 2008, including a discussion of the main morphological characteristics, the description and summary of a representative species, Schyzocotyle acheilognathi (Yamaguti, 1934) Brabec et al., 2015 (also known as the Asian fish tapeworm), including its prevalence, life cycles, host range, and zoogeography.

Chapter 21 in Concepts in Animal Parasitology by Jorge Falcón-Ordaz and Luis García-Prieto. 2024. S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, editors. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap021

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