Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Gastrointestinal helminths in Amietia sp. (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) from the Albertine Rift of Central Africa Cover

Gastrointestinal helminths in Amietia sp. (Anura: Pyxicephalidae) from the Albertine Rift of Central Africa

Open Access
|Sep 2021

Figures & Tables

Helminths reported for species assigned to the genus Amietia_

Host SpeciesDistributionHelminthReference
A. angolensis (Bocage, 1866)Central Africa1,2Cylindrotaenia jaegerskioeldiJones, 1987
Amphibiophilus acanathocirratusSchmidt and Canaris, 1968
Amphibiophilus chabaudiPuylaert, 1967
Amphibiophilus natalensisBaker, 1981
Amphibiophilus versteraeBaker, 1981
Aplectana chamaeleonisBaker, 1987
Aplectana macintoshiiHalahan et al., 2013
Entomelas sylvestrisHalahan et al., 2013
Falcaustra sp.Schmidt and Canaris, 1968
A. chapini (Noble, 1924)Central AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. delalandii (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)Southeastern AfricaAmphibiophilus mooiensisSvitin and DuPreez, 2018
Rhabdias picardiaeSvitin et al., 2018
Amphibiophilus sp. 1Svitin et al. 2020
Amphibiophilus sp. 2Svitin et al. 2020
A. desaegeri (Laurent, 1972)Eastern DRC and western RwandaNo Helminths reported
A. fuscigula (Duméril and Bibron, 1841)Southern South AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. hymenopus (Boulenger, 1920)Lesotho and adjacent South AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. inyangae (Poynton,1966)Eastern ZimbabweNo Helminths reported
A. johnstoni (Günther, 1894)Southern MalawiNo Helminths reported
A. moyerorum Channing, Dehling, Lötters, and Ernst, 2016Malawi and TanzaniaNo Helminths reported
A. nutti (Boulenger, 1896)Central and East Africa from TanzaniaAmphibiophilus chabaudiBursey et al., 2018
to EthiopiaFalcaustra congoensisBursey et al., 2018
A. poyntoni Channing and Baptista, 2013Namibia to South AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. ruwenzorica (Laurent, 1972)Albertine Rift of DRC and UgandaNo Helminths reported
A. tenuoplicata (Pickersgill, 2007)Highlands of Kenya and TanzaniaNo Helminths reported
A. vandijki (Visser and Channing, 1997)Namibia to South AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. vertebralis (Hewitt, 1927)Lesotho and adjacent South AfricaNo Helminths reported
A. wittei (Angel, 1924)Western Kenya to northern Tanzania2No Helminths reported

Number of Nematoda (n), Prevalence (%), Mean intensity ± SD (X), Range (r) and Collection Site for helminths from 14 Amietia sp_ from the Democratic Republic of the Congo_ * = new host record_

Nematoden%XrCollection Site
*Amphibiophilus chabaudi40575.1 ± 3.82-14small intestine
*Aplectana praeputialis27----------large intestine
*Falcaustra congoensis10292.8 ± 2.21-6small intestine
*Foleyellides duboisi17----------stomach
*Orneoascaris chrysanthemoides67----------small intestine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0025 | Journal eISSN: 1336-9083 | Journal ISSN: 0440-6605
Language: English
Page range: 328 - 332
Submitted on: Jan 16, 2021
Accepted on: Mar 28, 2020
Published on: Sep 30, 2021
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 S. R. Goldberg, C. R. Bursey, F. M. Mali, C. Kusamba, A. J. Robbins, E. Greenbaum, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.