Helminth Parasites of <i>Polypedates leucomystax</i> (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) in Yaeyama Islands, Southern Ryukyu, Okinawa, Japan

• HASEGAWA Hideo

  Department of Infectious Disease Control, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University

• KADOTA Yohei

  Japan Forest Technology Association

• IKEDA Yatsukaho

  Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University

• SATO Akiko

  Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University

• MATSUURA Keiko

  Department of Biomedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Oita University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• Helminth Parasites of Polypedates leucomystax (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae) in Yaeyama Islands, Southern Ryukyu, Okinawa, Japan
• Body Size and Age Structure in Two Populations of Tokyo Daruma Pond Frog, Pelophylax porosus porosus
• Body Size and Age Structure in Two Populations of Tokyo Daruma Pond Frog, <i>Pelophylax porosus porosus</i>

Abstract

We evaluated helminth parasitism in the alien frog, Polypedates leucomystax, on Ishigakijima and Iriomotejima, Yaeyama Islands, Okinawa, Japan. Among 12 helminth species observed, the parasitic oligochaete, Allodero sp., may have been introduced by this frog to Ishigakijima without spreading to Iriomotejima. Raillietnema rhacophori, a nematode commonly parasitic in P. leucomystax of Okinawajima and Miyakojima, was not observed. Seven helminth species, namely, Mesocoelium sp., Rhabdias sp., Strongyloides sp., Cosmocerca japonica, Meteterakis sp., Oswaldocruzia hoepplii, Oswaldocruzia japalurae, Pseudoacanthocephalus sp. were surmised to be acquired from the endemic anurans and/or saurians in the Yaeyama Islands. This frog also serves as a paratenic host for Physalopteridae sp., Dispharynx sp. and Centrorhynchus sp./spp., in which adults are parasites of birds or snakes.

Journal

• Current Herpetology

  Current Herpetology 37 (1), 1-10, 2018

  The Herpetological Society of Japan

Keywords

• <i>Allodero</i>
• Endoparasites
• Exotic species
• Yaeyama Islands

Details

• CRID: 1390001204713475840
• NII Article ID: 130006404985
• NII Article ID: 130006404986
• NII Book ID: AA12246863
• DOI: 10.5358/hsj.37.1
• DOI: 10.5358/hsj.37.58
• ISSN: 18811019
• ISSN: 13455834
• NDL BIB ID: 028849077
• NDL BIB ID: 028849167
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I028849077
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I028849167
• Web Site: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full-xml/10.5358/hsj.37.58
• Web Site: http://www.bioone.org/doi/full-xml/10.5358/hsj.37.1
• Text Lang: en
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