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Keys to the Trematoda

The trematodes are parasitic worms infecting all vertebrate groups and include families of significance to human and animal health, with considerable economic impact. This book in three volumes, presents a detailed revision of the systematics and taxonomy of the platyhelminth class Trematoda, subclasses Aspidogastrea and Digenea, with keys for the identification of these parasites at the superfamily, family and subfamily and generic levels.

Volume 1

D I Gibson, A Jones, R A Bray (eds)

The first volume covers the subclass Aspidogastrea and order Strigeida. The authors in this volume includes 16 specialists from the UK, USA, Australia, Bulgaria, Czech Republie and Poland. The book will appeal to parasitologists involved in identificaiton and/or research in medical and veterinary helminthology, ecology or conservation.

Volume 2

A Jones, R A Bray and D I Gibson (eds)

This book presents the taxa in the Order Echinostomida and some of those in the Order Plagiorchiida, with keys for their identification at the superfamily, family, subfamily and generic levels. The keys are based on critical examination of specimens by subject experts, and generic diagnoses are accompanied by illustrations of important morphological characters. This volume includes seven echinostomidan superfamilies (the echinostomatoids, haploporoids, haplosplanchnoids, heronimoids, microscaphidioids, paramphistomatoids and pronocephaloids) and two plagiorchiidan superfamilies (the allocreadioids and lepocreadioids).

Volume 3

The third volume, due to be published in early 2006, will cover the remaining members of the Plagiorchiida.

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Volume 2
ISBN: 0 851 99587 X
Price: £150.00
Format: Hardback
Size: 250 mm x 175 mm
Extent: 768 pp, black and white
Published: June 2005
Subject classification: Zoology; parasitology; ecology; conservation