Published July 30, 2014 | Version v1
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Porrocaecum undetermined

Description

Porrocaecum sp.

Host and locality record: Atelopus spurrelli Boulenger (CHO, CAL), Leptodactylus chaquensis (CO), Oophaga histronica (CHO, CAL), Pipa pipa (Linnaeus), (CU) and Rhinella schnederi (= Bufo paracnemis) (CO)

Distribution: Argentina, Colombia and Peru

Site of infection: liver, mesentery, colon and serous stomach

Stage: not reported

Reference: Bursey et al. (2001), Goldberg and Bursey (2003), Hamann, Kehr and González (2006) Schaefer et al. (2006) and González and Hamann (2008)

Notes

Published as part of Campião, Karla Magalhães, Morais, Drausio Honorio, Dias, Olívia Tavares, Aguiar, Aline, Toledo, Gislayne De Melo, Tavares, Luiz Eduardo Roland & Silva, Reinaldo José Da, 2014, Checklist of Helminth parasites of Amphibians from South America, pp. 1-93 in Zootaxa 3843 (1) on page 10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3843.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4928492

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Toxocaridae
Genus
Porrocaecum
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ascaridida
Phylum
Nematoda
Species
undetermined
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Bursey, C. R., Goldberg, S. R. & Pamarlee, J. R. (2001) Gastrointestinal helminths of 51 species of anurans from Reserva Cuzco Amazonico, Peru. Comparative Parasitology, 68, 21 - 35. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1654 / 4132
  • Goldberg, S. R. & Bursey, C. R. (2003) Helminths of two anuran species, Atelopus spurrelli (Bufonidae) and Dendrobates histrionicus (Dendrobatidae), from Colombia, South America. Parasitology International, 52, 251 - 253. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / s 1383 - 5769 (03) 00013 - 8
  • Schaefer, E. F., Hamann, M. I., Kehr, A. I., Gonzalez, C. E. & Dure, M. I. (2006) Trophic, reproductive and parasitological aspects of the ecology of Leptodactylus chaquensis (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Argentina. Herpetological Journal, 16, 387 - 394.
  • Gonzalez, C. E. & Hamann, M. I. (2008) Nematode parasites of two anuran species Rhinella schneideri (Bufonidae) and Scinax acuminatus (Hylidae) from Corrientes, Argentina. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 56, 2147 - 2161.