Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of
Concepts in Animal Parasitology Textbook
Date of this Version
2024
Document Type
Book Chapter
Citation
Chapter 27, Concepts in Animal Parasitology, pages 321–325
Textbook
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: Zea Books, 2024
chapter doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap027
Abstract
An overview of the cestode (tapeworm) order Litobothriidea Dailey, 1969. The 9 species included in the order, all belonging to the genus Litobothrium, infect the spiral intestine of sharks in the order Lamniformes in the tropical eastern Pacific to the central Indo-Pacific marine ecoregions. Covers their main morphological characteristics, description and summary of a representative species, L. amplificum (Kurochkin and Slankis, 1973) Euzet, 1994, taxonomy, and life cycles.
Chapter 27 in Concepts in Animal Parasitology by Luis García-Prieto, Berenice Adán-Torres, Brenda Atziri García-García, and Omar Lagunas-Calvo. 2024. S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, editors. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.ciap027
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