Gulf of Mexico, northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada
Habitat-Biology
parasitic
References
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.
Hutton, R. F., and F. Sogandares-Bernal. 1960a. Studies on helminth parasites from the coast of Florida. II. Digenetic trematodes from shore birds of the west coast of Florida. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean 10: 40–54.
Linton, E. 1928. Notes on trematode parasites of birds. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 73(2722): 1–36.
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, 04-26-2024.