Twenty-nine specimens of A. catesbeiana (9 males, 10 females and 10 juveniles of undetermined gender) were collected from artificial ponds located in Ichthyology Laboratory of the Department of Animal ...

Tobacco Barn Hollow Nature Preserve has been the setting for some of my past adventures. At Tree People, an Arc of Appalachia event, husband and wife team Brit Wood and Andrea Jaeger taught me and ...

Juracanthocephalus (a, overall view; b, artistic reconstruction) and the comparison with extant Acanthocephala (c). Scale bars, 2.0 mm (a, b), 0.5 mm (c). Credit: YANG Dinghua The Jurassic fossil ...

A fossil acanthocephalan, Juracanthocephalus, from the 160-million-year-old Daohugou Biota in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has been discovered by a research team from the Nanjing ...

A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called ...

Frontiers in Veterinary Science is an international journal on animal health and disease with cutting-edge research across the entire spectrum of veterinary medicine. This special article collection ...

ABSTRACT: Out of the 48 fishes examined, 40 (83.3%) were infected by 759 parasites, which comprise of trematodes, monogeneans, crustaceans and acanthocephalans. Acanthocephalans and strigeid ...

In May 2019, a female European hedgehog in poor physical condition, found in Monsanto forest park, within the municipality of Lisbon, was brought to the Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre of Lisbon ...

Burdon-Jones (1998) stated that there are 94 described species in 16 genera in the world, with many more undescribed, and 12 species in seven genera in Australia. Cameron (2008) lists 108 species for ...