Norman O. Dronen

Norman O. Dronen (1945–2022), U.S. parasitologist and helminthologist.

Laboratory of Parasitology, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2258 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-2258, U.S.A

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(List may be incomplete)

Dronen, N.O., Schmidt, G.D., Allison, B.R. & Mellen, J.W. 1988. Some parasitic helminths from the American oystercatcher, Haematopus palliatus Temminck, from the Texas gulf coast and the common pied oystercatcher, H. ostralegus Linnaeus, from New Zealand, including Dildotaenia latovarium n. gen. and n. sp. (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae). Journal of Parasitology 74(5): 864–867. JSTOR . Reference page.

Blend, C.K., Dronen, N.O., Gardner, S.L., Racz, G.R., & Armstrong, H.W. 2012: The deep-sea fish digenean genus Tellervotrema Gibson & Bray, 1982 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae): Re-evaluation of the type species, T. armstrongi Gibson & Bray, 1982 and T. beringi (Mamaev, 1965). Zootaxa 3295(1): 1–29. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3295.1.1 . Reference page.
Calhoun, D.M. & Dronen, N.O. 2012. A reevaluation of specimens of Mesocoelium monas (Platyhelminthes: Digenea: Mesocoeliidae) from the Natural History Museum, UK and the United States National Parasite Collection, USA. Zootaxa 3589: 1–29. Preview Reference page.
Dronen, N.O., Calhoun, D.M. & Simcik, S.R. 2012. Mesocoelium Odhner, 1901 (Digenea: Mesocoelidae) revisited; a revision of the family and re-evaluation of species composition in the genus. Zootaxa 3387: 1–96. Preview Reference page.

Dronen, N.O. & Tkach, V.V. 2014. Key to the species of Morishitium Wienberg, 1928 (Cyclocoelidae), with the description of a new species from the red-billed blue magpie, Urocissa erythrorhyncha (Boddaert) (Corvidae) from Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China. Zootaxa 3835(2): 273–282. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.2.7 Reference page.

Blend, C.K., Kuramochi, T. & Dronen, N.O. 2015. Re-evaluation of Tellervotrema katadara (Kuramochi, 2001) Kuramochi, 2009 (Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) and supplementary morphological data for T. beringi (Mamaev, 1965) Gibson & Bray, 1982 with new host and locality. Zootaxa 3986(4): 435–451. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.4.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Dronen, N.O. & Blend, C.K. 2015. Updated keys to the genera in the subfamilies of Cyclocoelidae Stossich, 1902, including a reconsideration of species assignments, species keys and the proposal of a new genus in Szidatitreminae Dronen, 2007. Zootaxa 4053(1): 1–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4053.1.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Blend, C.K., Dronen, N.O. & Armstrong, H.W. 2016. Podocotyle nimoyi n. sp. (Digenea: Opecoelidae: Plagioporinae) and a re-description of Podocotyle pearsei Manter, 1934 from five species of deep-sea macrourids from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa 4117(4): 491–512. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4117.4.3. Reference page.
Dronen, N.O., Blend, C.K., Khalifa, R.M.A., Mohamadain, H.S. & Karar, Y.F.M. 2016. Pelopscreadium aegyptense n. gen., n. sp. and Pelopscreadium spongiosum (Bray & Cribb, 1998) n. comb., (Digenea: Lepocreadiidae), each from disjunct populations of the Yellow boxfish, Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus (Ostraciidae). Zootaxa 4127(3): 567–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4127.3.9. Reference page.

Blend, C.K., Karar, Y.F.M. & Dronen, N.O. 2017. Revision of the Megaperidae Manter, 1934 n. comb. (Syn. Apocreadiidae Skrjabin, 1942) including a reorganization of the Schistorchiinae Yamaguti, 1942. Zootaxa 4358(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4358.1.1. Reference page.
Dronen, N.O., Al-Kassar, N.R., Ali, A.H., Abdulhameed, M.F., Abdullah, B.H. & Al-Mayah, S.H. 2017. Intraspecific variation in adult Uvitellina iraquensis Dronen, Ali & Al-Amura, 2013 (Cyclocoelidae: Haematotrephinae) from two collection sites of white-tailed lapwing, Vanellus leucurus (Lichtenstein) (Charadriiformes: Charadriidae), in Iraq. Zootaxa 4242(1): 1–33. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.1.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Sánchez, S.M., Goldstein, L.Y. & Dronen, N.O. 2018. Diphyllobothrium stemmacephalum Cobbold, 1858 (Diphyllobothriidea) from common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu) from the Texas Gulf coast, USA. Zootaxa 4379(3): 448–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4379.3.11 Reference page.

Blend, C.K., Dronen, N.O. & Armstrong, H.W. 2019. Occurrence of Podocotyle Dujardin, 1845 (Opecoelidae, Podocotylinae) in three species of deep-sea macrourids from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with an updated key to species and host-parasite checklist. Zootaxa 4638(4): 507–533. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.3 Reference page.

Dronen, N.O., Karar, Y.F.M. & Blend, C.K. 2020. A new genus and species of Anchitrematidae Mehra, 1935 (Digenea: Gorgoderoidea) in a freshwater fish from the River Nile at Qena, Egypt with amendation of the family. ZooBank: 2020 Reference page.
Karar, Y.F.M., Blend, C.K., Mohamadain, H.S., Khalifa, R.M.A. & Dronen, N.O. 2020. Unusual opecoelids from Red Sea triggerfishes with special reference to characteristic concepts of the Opistholebetinae Fukui, 1929 (Digenea: Opecoelidae). Zootaxa 4834(1): 1–32. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4834.1.1 Reference page.