This review analyses the scarce available data on biodiversity and transmission of helminths
in Arctic coastal ecosystems and the potential impact of climate changes on them. The focus …

There are several species of gymnophallid digeneans in the genus Parvatrema that are
unique in develo** metacercariae that reproduce by parthenogenesis in the second …

Abstract Species of Apatemon Szidat, 1928 and Australapatemon Sudarikov, 1959 are
reported from New Zealand for the first time, and their life cycles are resolved using …

Climate oscillations and episodic processes interact with evolution, ecology and
biogeography to determine the structure and complex mosaic that is the biosphere …

The cryptic diversity of trematodes was evaluated in the Nagayama-Shinkawa River, an
artificial canal of the Ishikari River System of Hokkaido, Japan. Numerous migratory …

The present study analysed the taxonomic status and phylogenetic relationships of two
species of xiphidiocercariae of the ʻmicrocotylaeʼ group, Cercaria pugnax La Valette St …

Background Host-specificity patterns are not well-defined for trematodes of the genus
Phyllodistomum Braun, 1899. The Eurasian ruffe, Gymnocephalus cernuus L., has been …

Abstract Rhopalocercous Cercaria duplicata von Baer, 1827 develops in an intermediate
host, the unionid bivalve Anodonta anatina (L.), but its adult form has been unknown. We …

Notocotylids are common digeneans parasitising birds and mammals. They have a two-host
life cycle with cercariae encysting in the open. Particular life cycles remain unknown for …

Two new species of the microphallid genus Maritrema (Maritrema) Nicoll, 1907 are
described from freshwaters in the South Island of New Zealand. Maritrema deblocki n. sp …