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Pellegrino gave another “Bat Die-Off Prompts Investigation; DEC Asks for Cavers’ Help to Prevent Spread of ‘White Nose Syndrome,’” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/41621.htm, January 30, 2008.
Many of these species are relatively harmless Evans, Principles of Acarology, 187–188.
What saved civilization, apparently Andrew B. Appleby, “The Disappearance of the Plague: A Continuing Puzzle,” Economic History Review 33, no. 2 (2004): 161–73.
Hard-bodied ticks, ixodids Evans, Principles of Acarology, 390.
For example, the larval instars of Ibid., 179.
Similarly, Dr. Lauren Krupp and her colleagues L. B. Krupp, L. G. Hyman, R. Grimson, P. K. Coyle, P. Melville, S. Ahnn, et al., “Study and Treatment of Post Lyme Disease (STOP-LD): A Randomized Double Masked Clinical Trial,” Neurology 60 (2003): 1923–30.
Alternatively, some researchers felt A. C. Steere, E. Taylor, G. L. McHugh, and E. L. Logigian, “The Overdiagnosis of Lyme Disease,” Journal of the American Medical Association 269, no. 14 (1993): 1812–16.
9: CANDIRU: TROUBLE WITH A CAPITAL C AND THAT RHYMES WITH P
According to some of these Stephen Spotte, Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfish (Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, 2001), 157–66.
These fishes are greatly attracted by the odor Ibid., 157. From a translation in Carl H. Eigenmann, “The Pygidiidae, a Family of South American Catfishes,” in Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh, Penn.: Carnegie Museum, 1918), 259–98.
Fortunately, as with the candiru’s fellow Spotte, Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfish.
Candiru belong to the Trichomycteridae Warren Burgess, An Atlas of Freshwater and Marine Catfishes (Neptune City, N.J.: TFH Publications, 1993), 305–25.
Trichomycterids, most of which are rather plain-looking Spotte, Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfish, 5.
Within the Trichomycteridae is a small subfamily Ibid.
According to Dr. Spotte Ibid., 50–51.
a technique detailed in an article published Kenneth W. Vinton and W. H. Stickler, “The Carnero: A Fish Parasite of Man and Possibly Other Mammals,” Journal of Surgery N.S. 54 (1941): 511–19.
There have been numerous anecdotal descriptions Paulo Petry, Anoar Samad, and Stephen Spotte, “Candiru Attack on Human in the Amazon River: Hard Evidence for a Long Standing Myth” (paper presented at the American Society of Herpetologists and Ichthyologists, July 6, 2001).
A recent claim by researchers Jansen Zuanon and Ivan Sazima, “Vampire Catfishes Seek the Aorta Not the Jugular: Candirus of the Genus Vandellia (Trichomycteridae) Feed on Major Gill Arteries of Host Fishes,” Journal of Ichthyology & Aquatic Biology 8, no. 1 (2003): 31–36.
In the “urine-loving hypothesis” Spotte, Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfish, 142–49.
Interestingly, these apparent drawbacks Eigenmann, “The Pygidiidae, a family of South American Catfishes,” 266–67.
In what has become known Spotte, Candiru: Life and Legend of the Bloodsucking Catfish, 154–56.
10: A TOUGH WAY TO MAKE A LIVING
What was so thought provoking Kurt Vonnegut, Galápagos, (New York: Delacorte Press, 1985).
In that regard, they Dolph Schluter and Peter Grant, “Ecological Correlates of Morphological Evolution in a Darwin’s Finch, Geospiza difficilis,” Evolution 38, no. 4 (1984): 856–69.
Geospiza difficilis is widely distributed Peter Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, and Kenneth Petren, “The Allopatric Phase of Speciation: The Sharp-Beaked Ground Finch (Geospiza difficilis) on the Galápagos Islands,” British Journal of the Linnaean Society 69 (2000): 287–317.
We should judge every scrap of biodiversity Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1992), 351.
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