Contracaecum Railliet and Henry, 1912

González, Cynthya Elizabeth & Inés, Hamann Monika, 2015, Checklist of nematode parasites of amphibians from Argentina, Zootaxa 3980 (4), pp. 451-476 : 453

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6093279
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scientific name	Contracaecum Railliet and Henry, 1912
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Treatment

(= Amphicaecum Walton, 1927 ; = Cerascaris Cobb, 1929 ; Contracaecum (Ornitocaecum) Mozgovoi, 1951 ; = Contracaecum (Synthetonema) Kreis, 1952 ; = Kathleena Leiper and Atkinson, 1914 )

Contracaecum sp. (larvae)

Host and record: Dendropsophus nanus (Boulenger, 1889) (= Hyla nana ) (Co), Lithobates catesbeianus (Shaw, 1802) (Sj) .

Site of infection: Mesentery, gastric serous membrane.

Material deposited: CECOAL 13111101 ( L. catesbeianus ).

References: Hamann & Kehr (1998), González et al. (2014).

Life cycle: Species of the genus Contracaecum do not reach maturity in frogs. These species requires an intermediate host (aquatic invertebrates or fishes) to complete its cycle; the definitive hosts are piscivorous birds and aquatic mammals ( Anderson 2000).