Caecincola autumnae n. sp. is described from the pyloric ceca of spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus) collected from Big Sandy Creek in the Big Sandy Creek Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Polk County, Texas, U.S.A. It can be distinguished from all other species of Caecincola by the presence of an ovary with 4 lobes and a narrowly obpanduriform to narrowly obpyriform body.
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1 January 2010
A New Species of Caecincola (Trematoda: Cryptogonimidae) from Spotted Bass (Micropterus punctulatus) in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A
Michael A. Barger
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Comparative Parasitology
Vol. 77 • No. 1
January 2010
Vol. 77 • No. 1
January 2010
Big Thicket National Preserve
Caecincola autumnae
Micropterus punctulatus
spotted bass
Texas