title: Fauna europaea: helminths (animal parasitic).
abstract: Fauna Europaea provides a public web-service with an index of scientific names (including important synonyms) of all living European land and freshwater animals, their geographical distribution at country level (up to the Urals, excluding the Caucasus region), and some additional information. The Fauna Europaea project covers about 230,000 taxonomic names, including 130,000 accepted species and 14,000 accepted subspecies, which is much more than the originally projected number of 100,000 species. This represents a huge effort by more than 400 contributing specialists throughout Europe and is a unique (standard) reference suitable for many users in science, government, industry, nature conservation and education. Helminths parasitic in animals represent a large assemblage of worms, representing three phyla, with more than 200 families and almost 4,000 species of parasites from all major vertebrate and many invertebrate groups. A general introduction is given for each of the major groups of parasitic worms, i.e. the Acanthocephala, Monogenea, Trematoda (Aspidogastrea and Digenea), Cestoda and Nematoda. Basic information for each group includes its size, host-range, distribution, morphological features, life-cycle, classification, identification and recent key-works. Tabulations include a complete list of families dealt with, the number of species in each and the name of the specialist responsible for data acquisition, a list of additional specialists who helped with particular groups, and a list of higher taxa dealt with down to the family level. A compilation of useful references is appended.
authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: CABI Europe-UK, Egham, United Kingdom.
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authors.affiliation: Central Laboratory of General Ecology (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria.
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authors.affiliation: Biology Centre (CAS), České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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authors.affiliation: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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authors.lastname: Harris
authors.affiliation: University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Tor A
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authors.lastname: Bakke
authors.affiliation: W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology (PAS), Warsaw, Poland.
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authors.affiliation: W. Stefański Institute of Parasitology (PAS), Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Katarzyna
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authors.affiliation: Biology Centre (CAS), České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Aneta
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authors.lastname: Kostadinova
authors.affiliation: University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, United States of America.
authors.forename: Vasyl
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authors.lastname: Tkach
authors.affiliation: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Odile
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authors.lastname: Bain
authors.affiliation: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Marie-Claude
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Durette-Desset
authors.affiliation: Royal Veterinary College, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Lynda
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authors.lastname: Gibbons
authors.affiliation: Biology Centre (CAS), České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: František
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authors.lastname: Moravec
authors.affiliation: Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Annie
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authors.lastname: Petter
authors.affiliation: Thracian University, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: Zlatka M
authors.initials: ZM
authors.lastname: Dimitrova
authors.affiliation: University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Kurt
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Buchmann
authors.affiliation: University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
authors.forename: E Tellervo
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Valtonen
authors.affiliation: University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland ; University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
authors.forename: Yde
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authors.lastname: de Jong
keywords: Acanthocephala; Biodiversity; Biodiversity Informatics; Cestoda; Fauna Europaea; Helminth; Monogenea; Nematoda; Parasite; Taxonomic indexing; Taxonomy; Trematoda; Zoology