This is the third of three volumes of Keys to the Trematoda, a series on the systematics and identification of the Class Trematoda. It covers five superfamilies with the Order Plagiorchiida and the family Didymozoidae, with the keys for their identification at the family, subfamily and generic levels. It also includes a key to all dignean superfamilies, including those treated in detail in volumes oneand two.
Parasitologists involved in the identification and / or research in medical and veterinary helminthology.
Praise for the previous volumes
"Keys to the Trematoda will become the standard reference on the group for many years. Given the infrequency of appearance of such large works and, this is likelyto remain the definitive work for the first half of this centuryand to find a place on book-shleves all over this planet"
David Blair, School of Tropical Biology, Australia
"Keys to the Trematoda will undoubtably represent an indespensible source of basic information about the systematics of these helminths"
Schloz and Horak, Folia Parasitologica
"The editors and the authors have succeeded in preparing a book which is valuable to experts, practising Parasitologists and beginners, and they should be congratulated on their great success"
Zdislaw Swiderski and Boyko Georgiev, Acta Parasitologica, 2005, 50(4)
Bray Systematics, phylogeny and biology of parasitic worms, with emphasis on the Platyhelminthes. Current research interests include: the digenean parasites of marine fishes, in particular those of the deep-sea and of coral reefs and the evolution of parasitism in the Platyhelminthes. Experienced field worker, having participated in 31 research cruises, and collected at sites in England, Scotland, Wales, Denmark, Norway, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey, Canada, South Africa, Australia, French Polynesia and Palau.
Trematoda, Nematodes
Gibson I am a specialist (morphologist/taxonomist), with 40 years of experience and more than 300 publications, on the systematics of helminth parasites (all groups but especially the Trematoda and Nematoda), with a particular interest in those from fishes and aquatic mammals. I also have some expertise with data-bases and faunistics.
Nematode, Trematode, helmintology