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Abstract
A taxonomic study of Proteocephalus species parasitizing cyprinid fishes in North America, namely Proteocephalus ptychocheilus Faust, 1920 and Proteocephalus cobraeformis Haderlie, 1953, has demonstrated their conspecificity with Proteocephalus torulosus (Batsch, 1786), a common parasite of cypriniform fishes (Cyprinidae and Cobitidae) in the Palaearctic Region. Proteocephalus ptychocheilus and P. cobraeformis are considered junior synonyms of P. torulosus.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10207386
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Parasitol ISSN: 0022-3395 Impact factor: 1.276