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Cosmocercoides variabilis

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Description

Cosmocercoides variabilis (Harwood, 1930)

Site of infection: intestine.

Recruitment: penetration.

Prevalence, mean intensity, and range: 14.8%, 2, 1-3.

Specimens deposited: CNHE: 6946.

Distribution: Canada: New Brunswick (McAlpine & Burt 1998a); Quebec (Rau et al. 1978). USA: California (Ingles 1936; Lehmann 1965; Goldberg & Bursey 2002a); Illinois (Andrews et al. 1992); Michigan (Muzzall 1991); Mississippi (Walton 1929); North Carolina (Brandt 1936); Ohio (Bursey & DeWolf 1998); Oklahoma (Trowbridge & Hefley 1934); Oregon (Lehmann 1965). Texas (Harwood 1932; Hollis 1972; Mayberry et al. 2000); Virginia (Campbell 1968); Washington (Lehmann 1965).

Specimens in collections: USNPC: 91250.

Remarks: This nematode species is considered as a true parasite of amphibians (Bolek 1997).

Notes

Published as part of Xue, Xiao-Feng, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2010, Five new species of Anthocoptini from China (Acari: Eriophyidae), pp. 1-53 in Zootaxa 2544 on page 28, DOI: 10.15468/um2vzb, http://zenodo.org/record/5303209

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Biodiversity

Family
Cosmocercidae
Genus
Cosmocercoides
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Rhabditida
Phylum
Nematoda
Scientific name authorship
Harwood
Species
variabilis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Cosmocercoides variabilis (Harwood, 1930) sec. Xue, Song & Hong, 2010

References

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  • McAlpine, D. F. & Burt, M. D. B. (1998 a) Helminths of Bullfrogs, Rana catesbeiana, Green Frogs, R. clamitans and Leopard Frogs, R. pipiens, in New Brunswick. Canadian Field- Naturalist, 112, 50 - 68.
  • Rau, M. E., Doyle, J. & Gordon, D. (1978) Les parasites des animaux sauvages du Quebec. 2. Les parasites des grenouilles et des serpents de la region del l'Ile Perrot. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 105, 56 - 57.
  • Ingles, I. G. (1936) Worm parasites of California amphibia. Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 55, 73 - 92.
  • Lehmann, D. L. (1965) Intestinal parasites of northwestern amphibians. Yearbook of the American Philosophical Society, 1965, 284 - 285.
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  • Bursey, C. R. & DeWolf, W. F. II. (1998) Helminths of the frogs, Rana catesbeiana, Rana clamitans, and Rana palustris, from Coshocton County, Ohio. Ohio Journal of Science, 98: 28 - 29.
  • Trowbridge, A. H. & Hefley, H. M. (1934) Preliminary studies of the parasite fauna of Oklahoma Anurans. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, 14, 16 - 19.
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  • Hollis, P. D. (1972) A survey of parasites of the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana Shaw, in Central East Texas. Southwestern Naturalist, 17, 198 - 200.
  • Mayberry, L. F., Canaris, A. G., Bristol, J. R. & Gardner, S. L. (2000) Bibliography of parasites and vertebrate hosts in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas (1893 - 1984). Electronic publication of the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraka, 100 pp.
  • Campbell, R. A. (1968) A comparative study of the parasites of certain Salientia from Pocahontas State Park, Virginia. Virginia Journal of Science, 19, 13 - 20.
  • Bolek, M. G. (1997) Seasonal ocurrence of Cosmocercoides dukae and prey analysis in the blue-spotted salamander, Ambystoma laterale, in southeastern Wisconsin. Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 64, 292 - 295.