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Helminth Diversity In Teleost Fishes From The South Orkney Islands Region, West Antarctica

  • 1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine
  • 2. State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center; Taras Shevchenko Blvd, 16, Kyiv, 02000 Ukraine
  • 3. State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center; Taras Shevchenko Blvd, 16, Kyiv, 02000 Ukraine & Scientific Research Institution Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea,
  • 4. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine & State Institution National Antarctic Scientific Center; Taras Shevchenko Blvd, 16, Kyiv, 02000 Ukraine & Scientific Research Institution Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea,
  • 5. National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine; 15, Bogdan Khmelnytskyi Street, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine
  • 6. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, NAS of Ukraine, vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15, Kyiv, 01030 Ukraine & African Amphibian Conservation Research Group, Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus; Private Bag X6001, Potchefstroom 20520, South Africa *Corresponding author

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Kuzmina, T. A., Salganskiy, O. O., Vishnyakova, K. O., Ivanchikova, J., Lisitsyna, O. I., Korol, E. M., Kuzmin, Yu. I. (2022): Helminth Diversity In Teleost Fishes From The South Orkney Islands Region, West Antarctica. Zoodiversity 56 (2): 135-152, DOI: 10.15407/zoo2022.02.135, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.15407/zoo2022.02.135

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