Rhabdias cf. pseudosphaerocephala Kuzmin, Tkach & Brooks, 2007

Aguiar, Aline, Morais, Drausio Honorio, Firmino Silva, Lidiane A., Anjos, Luciano Alves Dos, Foster, Ottilie Carolina & Silva, Reinaldo José Da, 2021, Biodiversity of anuran endoparasites from a transitional area between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil: new records and remarks, Zootaxa 4948 (1), pp. 1-41 : 13-14

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4948.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4616096

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Rhabdias cf. pseudosphaerocephala Kuzmin, Tkach & Brooks, 2007
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Hosts (prevalence; range): B. raniceps (2/79; 1–2), R. diptycha (3/21; 1–65), S. cf. ruber (1/5; 2), S. fuscovarius (15/51; 1–12), and T. typhonius (1/16; 9).

Site of infection: lungs.

Stage: adult.

Type host and type locality: Rhinella marina (Linnaeus) (= Bufo marinus ), Leon municipality, Leon Province, Nicaragua.

Comments: according to Kuzmin et al. (2007), R. pseudosphaerocephala resembles Rhabdias fuelleborni Travassos in general morphology, host specificity, and geographic distribution. Rhabdias sphaerocephala (Goodey) also resembles R. pseudosphaerocephala which was described from specimens previously identified as R. sphaerocephala ( Kuzmin et al. 2007) . Although the similarity in general morphology, R. sphaerocephala was originally described from the European toad and it is characterized by six lips surrounding an oral opening, buccal capsule without esophageal tissue and a relatively longer esophagus; whereas R. pseudosphaerocephala presents oral opening with four submedian lips overhanging the edge of the oral opening and two lateral pseudolabia, and buccal capsule walls completely surrounded by esophageal tissue. Here, we also confirm the identification of R. pseudosphaerocephala using molecular analyses conducted by Muller et al (2018) because we did not verify all these structures. Boana raniceps , S. cf. ruber , S. fuscovarius , and T. typhonius constitute new records for R. cf. pseudosphaerocephala while R. diptycha has already been recorded by Muller et al. (2018).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Rhabditida

Family

Rhabdiasidae

Genus

Rhabdias

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