Digenetic Trematodes of Indian Marine Fishes

• Main Authors: Madhavi, Rokkam (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Bray, Rodney A. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Entomology.; Parasitology.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Animal systematics.; Animal taxonomy.; Biodiversity.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.

This book is the first to explore in detail the systematics and taxonomy of the digenean fauna of fish in Indian marine waters. It includes morphological descriptions of 648 species in 190 genera and 30 families. The figures from the original publications are enhanced and made more attractive. Each...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Material and Methods
• Chapter 3. The Digenetic trematodes
• Part I: Systematic Account-Order Diplostomida Olson, Cribb, Tkach, Bray & Littlewood, 2003
• Chapter 4. Superfamily Schistosomatoidea
• Part II: Systematic Account-Order Plagiorchiida La Rue, 1957
• Chapter 5. Superfamily Bivesiculoidea
• Chapter 6. Superfamily Bucephaloidea.-Chapter 7. Superfamily Gymnophalloidea
• Chapter 8. Superfamily Haplosplanchnoidea
• Chapter 9. Superfamily Hemiuroidea
• Chapter 10. Superfamily Apocreadioidea
• Chapter 11. Superfamily Transversotrematoidea
• Chapter 12. Superfamily Haploporoidea
• Chapter 13. Superfamily Lepocreadioidea
• Chapter 14. Superfamily Brachycladioidea
• Chapter 15. Superfamily Opecoeloidea
• Chapter 16. Superfamily Monorchioidea.-Chapter 17. Superfamily Gorgoderoidea
• Chapter 18. Superfamily Microphalloidea
• Chapter 19. Superfamily Opisthorchioidea
• Chapter 20. Miscellaneous families
• Chapter 21. Conclusion.