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New records of trematode and acanthocephalan species in frogs in Erzurum Province, Turkey Cover

New records of trematode and acanthocephalan species in frogs in Erzurum Province, Turkey

By: Y. Tepe and  Y. Yilan  
Open Access
|Dec 2021

Abstract

A total of 32 frogs of two species (Rana macrocnemis, Pelophylax ridibundus) that were dissected in some lectures in Ataturk University Science Faculty Biology Department were investigated parasitologically even after the lectures between 2008 and 2014. 9 digenean species (Cephalogonimus retusus [Cephalogonimidae]; Diplodiscus subclavatus [Paramphistomotidae]; Gorgodera cygnoides, Gorgoderina vitelliloba [Gorgoderidae]; Haplometra cylindracea, Haematoloechus variegatus, Opisthioglyphe ranae, Skrjabinoeces similis and Skrjabinoeces breviansa [Plagiorchiidae]), 3 acanthocephalan species (Acanthocephalus ranae, Centrorhynchus sp., Pomphorhynchus laevis) were found. All the parasites are the first record for Erzurum province, Cephalogonimus retusus and Skrjabinoeces similis are the first records of the parasite fauna of Turkey.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/helm-2021-0043 | Journal eISSN: 1336-9083 | Journal ISSN: 0440-6605
Language: English
Page range: 372 - 384
Submitted on: Sep 17, 2021
Accepted on: Oct 27, 2021
Published on: Dec 25, 2021
Published by: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2021 Y. Tepe, Y. Yilan, published by Slovak Academy of Sciences, Mathematical Institute
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