First report of Seuratascaris numidica Seurat, 1917 (Nematoda: Ascarididae) and other helminths from amphibians of West Bengal, India

Abstract

Studies on nematode parasites from anuran hosts from Eastern India, particularly West Bengal, are rare. To our knowledge, there is a report of larvae of Monhysterides sp. (a fish parasite) from cysts within the body cavity and musculature of Duttaphrynus melanostictus, Hoplobatrachus tigerinus and Euphlyctis hexadactylus as well as descriptions of Aplectana duttaphryni from D. melanostictus, Aplectana dubrajpuri from H. tigerinus, Cosmocerca microhylae from Microhyla rubra and Rhabdias bulbicauda from D. melanostictus. Here, we report mature individuals of typical anuran parasites, Diplodiscus amphichrus and Seuratascaris numidica, from H. tigerinus and larvae of Acuariidae (a bird parasite) from Fejervarya limnocharis collected in Kulti, West Bengal.

Natural Feed Preference Fejervarya cancrivora L. and Fejervarya limnocharis L on the West Coast of Sumatra Island

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Meteterakis asansolensis sp. nov. (Nematoda: Heterakidae) in Duttaphrynus melanostictus (Schneider, 1899) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) from Asansol coalfield area, Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, India

“…It should be noted that Sou et al (2014) described Aplectana duttaphryni Sou, Sow and Nandi, 2014 from the rectum of D. melanostictus from Kulti, Asansol coalfield area. Few years later, Sou and Bursey (2017) reported the presence of Seuratascaris numidica Seurat, 1917 in Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1803) also from the same region. Recently, Sou and Sow (2018) have reported the presence of A. macintoshii (Stewart, 1914) Travassos, 1931 in Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) from the Raniganj town, Asansol coalfield region.…”