Gulf of Mexico, southeastern United States and the Bahamas
Habitat-Biology
parasitic
References
Bush, A. O. 1990. Helminth communities in avian hosts: determinants of pattern. Pp. 197–232 in G. W. Esch, A. O. Bush, J. M. Aho, eds. Parasite Communities: Patterns and Processes. Chapman and Hall, New York.
Dery, D. W. 1958. A revision of the genus Gynaecotyla (Microphallidae: Trematoda) with a description of Gynaecotyla riggini n. sp. Journal of Parasitology 44: 110–112.
Heard, R. W. 1967. Some helminth parasites of the clapper rail, Rallus longirostris Boddaert, from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States [master’s thesis]. University of Georgia, Athens.
Hutton, R. F. 1964. A second list of parasites from marine and coastal animals of Florida. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 83: 439–448.
Loftin, H. 1961. An annotated check-list of trematodes and cestodes and their vertebrate hosts from Northwest Florida. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences (1960) 23: 302–314. [Same paper as no. 186.]
MacInnis, A. J. 1966. Trematodes from marine shorebirds from the northwest Gulf Coast of Florida. Zoologischer Anzeiger 176: 52–68.
Species Notes
Added keyword "parasitic"
Source
Overstreet, R. M., J. O. Cook, and R. W. Heard. 2009. Trematoda (Platyhelminthes) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 419–486 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
GulfBase Citation
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies. 2016. GulfBase: Resource Database for Gulf of Mexico Research, Education, and Management. Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.gulfbase.org, 05-05-2024.