Gulf of Mexico, southeastern United States and the Bahamas
Habitat-Biology
parasitic
References
Forrester, D. J. 1992. Parasites and Diseases of Wild Mammals in Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 460 pp.
Harkema, R., and G. C. Miller. 1962. Helminths of Procyon lotor solutus from Cape Island, South Carolina. Journal of Parasitology 48: 333–335.
Hunter, W. S., and W. B. Vernberg. 1953. Early stages in the life cycle of the trematode, Gynaecotyla adunca (Linton, 1905). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 72: 163–170.
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.
Kinsella, J. M. 1988. Comparison of helminths of rice rats, Oryzomys palustris, from freshwater and saltwater marshes in Florida. Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington 55: 275–280.
Kinsella, J. M. 1974. Comparison of helminth parasites of the common rat, Sigmodon hispidus, from several habitats in Florida. American Museum Novitates 2540: 1–12.
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, 05-11-2024.