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Clinostomum cyst in Capoeta capoeta gracilis, from Shiroud river, Mazandaran, Iran, December 2011 (Photo provided by: Dr Sareh Tavakol) (February 2012)

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Ceratothoa imbricata

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Ceratothoa imbricata (Crustacea, Isopoda: Cymothoidae) was seen in a Diplodus sargus sargus (White seabream, Blacktail), in the Tsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Contracaecum sp. adult

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193 Worms were found in the Gizzard of a Male Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo sinensis) from Iran, by Dr Ali Halajian, January 2011.190 of these worms were identified as Contracaecum adult worms.

Ceratothoa imbricata (Isopoda: Cymothoidae) in Diplodus sargus sargus (White seabream) from Tsitsikamma national park, Eastern cape, South africa (Photograph by: Prof Niko J Smit) (January 2012)

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8th National Symposium and 1st International Congress of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases in Iran (NICOPA 8)

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Nidicolous

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Animals specially birds that stay at their nest or birthplace for a long time after birth, due to their dependence on the parents for feeding, protection and learning survival skills.e.g. most Mammals, Marsupials and many species of Birds

It is the opposite of Nidifugous, where the animal is able to leave the nest very faster after birth.

Allopatric speciation

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or geographic speciation is speciation that occurs when biological populations of the same species become isolated due to geographical changes such as mountain building or social changes such as emigration.

Results are called: Allospecies

International Conference on Diseases of Zoo and Wild Animals 2012

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Halajian, A., Eslami, A., Salehi, N., Ashrafi-Helan, J., Sato, H. (2010) Incidence and genetic characterization of Gongylonema pulchrum in Cattle slaughtered in Mazandaran province, Northern Iran, Iranian J Parasitol, 5(2), pp. 10-18.

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Moraveji, M., Hosseini, MH., Amrabadi, O., Rahimian, A., Namazi, F., Namavari, M. (2011) Seroprevalence of Neospora spp. in horses in South of Iran, Tropical Biomedicine, 28(3), pp. 514-517.

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