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New records of digenean parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Pisces: Clariidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, with description of Thaparotrema botswanensis sp. n. (Plathelminthes: Trematoda)

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Rensburg, Candice Jansen van, van As, Jo G., King, Pieter H. (2013): New records of digenean parasites of Clarias gariepinus (Pisces: Clariidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana, with description of Thaparotrema botswanensis sp. n. (Plathelminthes: Trematoda). African Invertebrates 54 (2): 431, DOI: 10.5733/afin.054.0210, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5733/afin.054.0210

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