ENDOPARASITES OF COPES GRAY TREEFROG, HYLA-CHRYSOSCELIS, AND WESTERN CHORUS FROG, PSEUDACRIS-T-TRISERIATA, FROM SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN

Citation
Mg. Bolek et Jr. Coggins, ENDOPARASITES OF COPES GRAY TREEFROG, HYLA-CHRYSOSCELIS, AND WESTERN CHORUS FROG, PSEUDACRIS-T-TRISERIATA, FROM SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 65(2), 1998, pp. 212-218
Citations number
46
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology,Parasitiology
ISSN journal
1049233X
Volume
65
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
212 - 218
Database
ISI
SICI code
1049-233X(1998)65:2<212:EOCGTH>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
Sixty-five Cope's gray treefrogs, Hyla chrysoscelis, and 6 western cho rus frogs, Pseudacris t. triseriata, were collected from southeastern Wisconsin during April through June 1996 and 1997 and examined for end oparasites. Fifty-one (78%) treefrogs and 5 (83%) chorus frogs were in fected with 1 or more endoparasites. Two species of protozoa, 2 specie s of nematodes, 3 species of larval and adult digeneans, 1 species of monogenean, and 3 species of metacestodes infected the treefrogs. The chorus frogs were infected by 1 species of protozoan, 1 species of nem atode, and 2 species of larval and adult digeneans. New host and distr ibution records for protozoan and metazoan parasites of Wisconsin anur ans are reported.