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1 June 2012 Helminth Parasites of Hypsiboas prasinus (Anura: Hylidae) from Two Atlantic Forest Fragments, São Paulo State, Brazil
Carla Bonetti Madelaire, Fernando Ribeiro Gomes, Reinaldo José da Silva
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Seventy-seven males of Hypsiboas prasinus from 2 Atlantic forest fragments in the municipalities of Botucatu and Jundiaí, São Paulo State, Brazil, were examined for endoparasites. The frogs were captured in summer (January until March) and winter (July/August) of 2008 and 2009. Thirty-three males (75%) from Botucatu were infected with Rhabdias cf. fuelleborni, cosmocerciid nematodes, and Cylindrotaenia americana. Twenty-five tree frogs (78.5%) from Jundiaí were infected by Rhabdias cf. fuelleborni, Physaloptera sp., and cosmocerciid nematodes. Only cosmocerciid nematodes presented a statistically significance difference in prevalence (z  =  4.345; P < 0.001) and mean abundance (t  =  562.0; P < 0.001) between Botucatu and Jundiaí during the winter. Also, the cosmocerciids exhibited higher mean abundance (t  =  196.0; P  =  0.034) in winter when compared with summer at the Jundiaí site. Moreover, to our knowledge, this is the first report of C. americana in the Brazilian Hylidae. This study presents 4 new records of nematodes in H. prasinus.

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Carla Bonetti Madelaire, Fernando Ribeiro Gomes, and Reinaldo José da Silva "Helminth Parasites of Hypsiboas prasinus (Anura: Hylidae) from Two Atlantic Forest Fragments, São Paulo State, Brazil," Journal of Parasitology 98(3), 560-564, (1 June 2012). https://doi.org/10.1645/JP-GE-2665.1
Received: 1 October 2010; Accepted: 1 December 2011; Published: 1 June 2012
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