Gastrointestinal Helminths of Six Sympatric Species of Leptodactylus from Tocantins State, Brazil

Stephen R. Goldberg; Charles R. Bursey; Janalee P. Caldwell; Donald B. Shepard

doi:10.1654/4368.1

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1 July 2009 Gastrointestinal Helminths of Six Sympatric Species of Leptodactylus from Tocantins State, Brazil

Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, Janalee P. Caldwell, Donald B. Shepard

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Comparative Parasitology, 76(2):258-266 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1654/4368.1

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A total of 107 leptodactylid frogs representing 6 species, Leptodactylus fuscus (n = 15), Leptodactylus leptodactyloides (n = 9), Leptodactylus mystaceus (n = 2), Leptodactylus ocellatus (n = 31), Leptodactylus petersii (n = 31), and Leptodactylus pustulatus (n = 19), collected in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, were examined for helminths. One species of Digenea (Catadiscus marinholutzi), 6 species of Nematoda (adults of Cosmocerca podicipinus, Ochoterenella scalaris, Oswaldocruzia proencai, and Schrankiana larvata and larvae of Brevimulticaecum sp. and Physaloptera sp.), and 1 species of Acanthocephala (as cystacanths) were found. The mean number of helminth species infecting each frog species was 3.3 ± 2.1 SD, with a range of 1–7. Ten new host records are reported.

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Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, Janalee P. Caldwell, and Donald B. Shepard "Gastrointestinal Helminths of Six Sympatric Species of Leptodactylus from Tocantins State, Brazil," Comparative Parasitology 76(2), 258-266, (1 July 2009). https://doi.org/10.1654/4368.1

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