Helminth Parasites of Polypedates leucomystax (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) in Yaeyama Islands, Southern Ryukyu, Okinawa, Japan

Autor:	Hideo Hasegawa, Keiko Matsuura, Yatsukaho Ikeda, Yohei Kadota, Akiko Sato
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	0301 basic medicine biology Parasitism Zoology Introduced species 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification 03 medical and health sciences Nematode Paratenic Strongyloides Polypedates leucomystax Helminths Animal Science and Zoology Rhacophoridae
Zdroj:	Current Herpetology. 37:1-10
ISSN:	1881-1019 1345-5834
DOI:	10.5358/hsj.37.1
Popis:	We evaluated helminth parasitism in the alien frog, Polypedates leucomystax, on Ishigakijima and Iriomotejima, Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Among 12 helminth species observed, the parasitic oligochaete, Allodero sp., may have been introduced by this frog to Ishigakijima without spreading to Iriomotejima. Raillietnema rhacophori, a nematode commonly parasitic in P. leucomystax of Okinawajima and Miyakojima, was not observed. Seven helminth species, namely, Mesocoelium sp., Rhabdias sp., Strongyloides sp., Cosmocerca japonica, Meteterakis sp., Oswaldocruzia hoepplii, Oswaldocruzia japalurae, Pseudoacanthocephalus sp. were surmised to be acquired from the endemic anurans and/or saurians in the Yaeyama Islands. This frog also serves as a paratenic host for Physalopteridae sp., Dispharynx sp. and Centrorhynchus sp./spp., in which adults are parasites of birds or snakes.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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