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A Review of the Trematode Genus Astiotrema in the Family Plagiorchiidae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Yeh Sheng-Liang  and
D. N. Fotedar
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In a critical review of the genus, the authors after studying ample material arrived at the conclusion that only four of the twenty-one species are valid. The shape of the testes is shown to vary from smooth to deeply lobed, and minor differences in the sucker ratios are considered invalid.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 32 , Issue 1-2 , August 1958 , pp. 17 - 32
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1958

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