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Meteterakis singaporensis
- 1. Department of Biology, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, USA;
- 2. Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Campus, Sharon, PA, USA;
- 3. Department of Biology, LaSierra University, Riverside, CA, USA
Description
Meteterakis singaporensis
was described from Duttaphrynus (as Bufo) melanostictus from Singapore by Inglis (1958), and was also found in C. mcguirei from Peninsular Malaysia by Bursey et al. (2014). Congeners of Meteterakis are mainly restricted to Southeast Asia and the Philippines (Baker 1987) and also occur in Papua New Guinea (Goldberg et al. 2010). Meteterakis singaporensis had the largest number of individuals (457) and greatest prevalence (24%). Meteterakis singaporensis in C. affinis, C. baueri, C. biocellata, C. grismeri, C. kumpoli, C. nuicamensis and C. pemanggilensis are new host records.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Heterakidae
- Genus
- Meteterakis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Rhabditida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Species
- singaporensis
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Inglis WG. 1958. A revision of the nematode genus Meteterakis Karve, 1930. Parasitol. 48: 9 - 31.
- Bursey CR, Goldberg SR, Grismer LL. 2014. New species of Bakeria (Nematoda; Strongylida; Molineidae), new species of Falcaustra (Nematoda; Ascaridida; Kathlaniidae) and other helminths in Cnemaspis mcguirei (Sauria; Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Acta Parasitol. 59: 643 - 652.
- Baker MR. 1987. Synopsis of the Nematoda parasitic in amphibians and reptiles. Mem Univ Newfoundland Occas Pap Biol. 11: 1 - 325.
- Goldberg SR, Bursey CR, Kraus F. 2010. Metazoan endoparasites of 14 species of skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) from Papua New Guinea. J Nat Hist. 44: 447 - 467.