THE MORPHOLOGY, LIFE-HISTORY, AND TAXONOMIC RELATIONS OFLEPOCREADIUM AREOLATUM(LINTON, 1900) STUNKARD, 1969 (TREMATODA: DIGENEA)
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- 1 February 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Biological Bulletin
- Vol. 158 (1) , 154-163
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1540766
Abstract
Digenetic trematodes from Morone americana, Tautogolabrus adspersus and other fishes at Woods Hole, Massachusetts [USA], were described by Linton (1900, 1901) as Distomum areolatum. They were redescribed by Stunkard (1969) as Lepocreadium areolatum. Metacercariae of these worms occur as unencysted distomes in ctenophores and medusae. Ophthalmotrichocercous cercariae, produced in rediae in the prosobranch gastropod, Nassarius trivittatus, were larvae of the species. Successive stages in the life cycle are described and figured.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: