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Marine cercariae from Curaçao and Jamaica

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This study supported by Grant G-15691, National Science Foundation, and made possible by the personnel and facilities of the Caraibisch Marien-Biologisch Institute, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, and the Marine Biological Laboratory of the University College of the West Indies, Jamaica. The author is especially indebted to Dr. Ingvar Kristensen, Director of the Curaçao Laboratory; to Prof. D. M. Steven, Head, and Dr. Ivan Goodbody, of the Department of Zoology, U.C.W.I.; and to Dr. H. E. Coomans, American Museum of Natural History, for the identification of molluscan hosts.

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Cable, R.M. Marine cercariae from Curaçao and Jamaica. Z. F. Parasitenkunde 23, 429–469 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00259930

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