Composition and diversity of helminth communities in eels anguilla anguilla in the river tiber: long-term changes and comparison with insular europe

• Main Authors: Kennedy, CR, BERRILLI, FEDERICA, DI CAVE, DAVID, De Liberato, C, ORECCHIA, PAOLA
• Other Authors: Kennedy, C, Berrilli, F, DI CAVE, D, Orecchia, P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1998
• Subjects: Settore VET/06 - PARASSITOLOGIA E MALATTIE PARASSITARIE DEGLI ANIMALI; Tiber; Anguilla anguilla; European eel
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2108/79787

Most studies of helminth communities in the European eel Anguilla anguilla have been undertaken in the British Isles, and there are very few analyses of community composition and structure from continental Europe. To fill this gap and test the hypothesis that helminth communities in freshwater eels...