The present study aimed to describe the infective larval stage of Physaloptera sp. parasitizing Leptodactylus macrosternum and microscopic lesions these larvae in stomach wall. Forty-five specimens L. were collected during rainy season May 2018, municipality Petrolina, sub-middle São Francisco region, state Pernambuco, Brazil. Twenty-seven (L3) attached mucosa 11 (24.4%) macrosternum. No other ...

Helminths and pentastomids were examined in exotic Hemidactylus mabouia and native Phyllopezus pollicaris lizards, living synanthropically in an urban area in the municipality of Crato, Ceará state, northeastern Brazil. A total of 194 lizards were collected, being 76 specimens of H. mabouia e 118 specimens of P. pollicaris. Six parasite species were found infecting H. mabouia: the cestode Oocho...

A total of 107 leptodactylid frogs representing 6 species, Leptodactylus fuscus (n 5 15), Leptodactylus leptodactyloides (n 5 9), Leptodactylus mystaceus (n 5 2), Leptodactylus ocellatus (n 5 31), Leptodactylus petersii (n 5 31), and Leptodactylus pustulatus (n 5 19), collected in the Brazilian state of Tocantins, were examined for helminths. One species of Digenea (Catadiscus marinholutzi), 6 ...

Fecal samples from the hedgehogs, Erinaceus europaeus (15 samples) and E. roumanicus (44 samples) collected in the Poznań region of Poland were examined. Endoparasites were isolated using Sheather's flotation technique. The prevalence of parasitic infections in all hedgehogs examined was 74.6% (E. europaeus--73.3%; E. roumanicus--75.0%). Two species of parasites occurred in both species of host...

The helminthological record of Rana cf. forreri in Acapulco municipality, Guerrero state, Mexico, consists of 19 taxa: 5 digeneans—Catadiscus rodriguezi, Haematoloechus coloradensis, metacercariae of Diplostomidae gen. sp., Mesostephanus sp., and Apharyngostrigea sp.; 2 cestodes—Cylindrotaenia americana and the plerocercoid of Diphyllobothriidae gen. sp.; 2 acanthocephalans—Neoechinorhynchus go...