First Record of a Mermithid Nematode from a Frog in Japan

TOSHIO DOI; HIDEO HASEGAWA

doi:10.3105/1345-5834(2006)25[35:FROAMN]2.0.CO;2

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TOSHIO DOI,^1,* HIDEO HASEGAWA²

¹aKobe Municipal Suma Aqualife Park, 1–3–5 Wakamiya-cho, Suma-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 654–0049, JAPAN
²bDepartment of Infectious Diseases (Biology), Faculity of Medicine, Oita University, 1–1 Idaigaoka,

^** Corresponding author. Tel: +81–78–731–7301; Fax: +81–78–733–6333 E-mail address: toshio_doi@kcva.or.jp

Abstract

A nematode 22 cm in length was spontaneously expelled from a pond frog, Rana nigromaculata, collected from an irrigation ditch of a paddy field in Kobe, Japan. The worm was identified as a larva belonging to the family Mermithidae on the basis of cephalic structure, presence of six longitudinal cords, and cross fibers in the cuticle. This is the first record of a mermithid from the Amphibia in Japan. This family has also been only rarely recorded from the amphibians outside Japan. Probably the infection is accidental parasitism, because mermithids are mostly parasitic in arthropods.

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TOSHIO DOI and HIDEO HASEGAWA "First Record of a Mermithid Nematode from a Frog in Japan," Current Herpetology 25(1), 35-37, (1 June 2006). https://doi.org/10.3105/1345-5834(2006)25[35:FROAMN]2.0.CO;2

Accepted: 1 May 2006; Published: 1 June 2006

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