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Rhabditidae Orley 1880
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Biology, Whittier College, Whittier, California 90608, USA
- 2. Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Campus, Sharon, Pennsylvania 16146, USA
- 3. Laboratoire d'Hérpétologie, Département de Biologie, Centre de Recherche en Sciences Naturelles, Lwiro, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 4. Department of Ecology and Biodiversity of Earth Resources, Centre de Surveillance de la Biodiversité de l'Université de Kisangani, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 5. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA
Description
RHABDITIDAE Örley, 1880
Twenty six species of Rhabdias Stiles & Hassall, 1905 are known from Africa (Kuzmin & Tkach 2020). Rhabdias bufonis was recently reported in Sclerophrys [as Amietophrynus Frost et al., 2006] regularis in Egypt by Morsy et al. (2018). Rhabdias bufonis has heterogonic free-living stages that become reproducing adults which produce infective larvae (Baker 1979). Infective larvae of Rhabdias americanus Baker, 1978, R. ranae Walton, 1929 and presumably other species of Rhabdias in amphibians infect the host by skin penetration; larvae then reach the body cavity of the host and invade the lungs where they mature and produce eggs (Baker 1979). Rhabdias bufonis in S. pusilla is a new host record.
Notes
Published as part of Goldberg, Stephen R., Bursey, Charles R., Kusamba, Chifundera, Mali, Franck M. & Greenbaum, Eli, 2021, Helminths from three common species of African Toads (Anura, Bufonidae, Sclerophrys), pp. 49-57 in Alytes 38 (1 - 4) on page 53, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16896326
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.16896326 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA4FFBA537A1B1C957DFFBCFFC5D329 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/7FE4244E-286A-4E80-96B8-B8D15DC7C7AF (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/039D87C2537E1B18959EF9ACFD4ED4AE (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/294129737 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Orley
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Order
- Rhabditida
- Family
- Rhabditidae
- Taxon rank
- family
- Taxonomic concept label
- Rhabditidae Orley, 1880 sec. Goldberg, Bursey, Kusamba, Mali & Greenbaum, 2021
References
- Kuzmin, Y. & Tkach, V. V. (2020) Rhabdias. <http://izan.Kiev.ua/ppages/rhabdias/list.htni>. [Accessed on 29 December 2020].
- Morsy, K., Al Mohamed, S., Abdel-Ghaffar, F., El-Fayoumi, H. & Abdel-Haleem, H. (2018) Rhabdias bufonis (Rhabdiasidae) from the lung of the African common toad, Amietophrynus regularis (Bufonidae) in Egypt: new data on the basis of light and scanning electron microscopic study. PeerJ, 6: e 5328. [DOI 10.7717/peerj.5328].
- Baker, M. R. (1979) The free-living and parasitic development of Rhabdias spp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) in Amphibians. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 57: 161-178.