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drainage is not very distinct from that seen in
other previously studied freshwater basins in
Mexico.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by project no.
400355-5-27668N from the Consejo Nacional
para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia (CONACyT),
Mexico and by the Comision Nacional para el
Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CON-
ABIO), Mexico, project nos. H007 and L051.
We are indebted to Drs. Frantisek Moravec and
Tomas Scholz for identification of nematodes
and cestodes. Thanks are also due Aitzane Delgado-Yoshino,
Erick Alcantara, Alejandra Hernandez-Rodriguez,
Nancy Minerva Lopez-Flores,
Isabel Cristina Caneda-Guzman, Norman
Mercado-Silva, and Felipe Villegas-Marquez for
their assistance in the field and laboratory.
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