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Issue: Vol. 4170 No. 3: 26 Sept. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-09-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.3.10
Page range: 581–586
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A new species of Foleyellides (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) parasite of Lithobates spp. (Amphibia: Ranidae) from Mexico with a key for the species of the genus

Laboratorio de Helmintología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 70–153, CP 04510 México, D. F., México.
Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, San Patricio, Jalisco 48980, México.
Amphibia Filarids Lithobates psilonota Lithobates pustulosus Jalisco Nayarit

Abstract

Thirty-six Foleyellides mayenae n. sp. were recovered from the body cavity of Lithobates psilonota (Webb, 2001) and L. pustulosus (Boulenger, 1883) (Ranidae) from Jalisco and Nayarit, respectively. Foleyellides mayenae is the eleventh species described for the genus and the third for Mexican amphibians; it differs from the other species of the genus by the following combined characters: five pairs of caudal papillae, 1 pre-anal, 1 adanal and 3 post-cloacal, and the absence of a preanal plaque.

 

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