Polystomatidae (Monogenea) of African Anura: Polystoma dawiekoki n. sp. parasitic in Ptychadena anchietae (Bocage).

Abstract:

:Polystoma dawiekoki n. sp. is described as a new species of the Polystomatidae parasitic in the urinary bladder of the plain grass frog Ptychadena anchietae. This parasite was collected at Mkuze town and Mkuze Game Reserve in northern Kwazulu-Natal Province, in the Kruger National Park in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, and at Bulwa in Tanga Province, East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. It is distinguished from other African Polystoma species by a combination of characters, including the body size, size and shape of marginal hooklets and the haptor length to body length ratio. The presence of adult, as well as subadult, parasites in the same individuals, as is known for Eupolystoma, represents a significant evolutionary departure from the pattern of transmission typical of Polystoma in most of the other anuran hosts.

journal_name

Syst Parasitol

journal_title

Systematic parasitology

authors

du Preez LH,Vaucher C,Mariaux J

doi

10.1023/a:1015034329033

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-05-01 00:00:00

pages

35-41

issue

1

eissn

0165-5752

issn

1573-5192

journal_volume

52

pub_type

杂志文章