Digenean parasites of the water skipper Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) (Anura: Dicroglossidae) of the South Western Ghats, India

Shinad Keloth,Prasadan Puthanpurayil Kandambeth

doi:10.21472/bjbs.051112

Abstract

Five species of digenean parasites, Diplodiscus mehrai, Tremiorchis ranarum, Halipegus mehransis, Ganeo glottoides and Ganeo tigrinum, of the frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the Wayanad Region of the South Western Ghats are reported in this paper. Multiple infections were also recorded during the study. Prevalence of infection of D. mehrai, T. ranarum, H. mehransis, G. glottoides and G. tigrinum were 12%, 8%, 2%, 31% and 8%, respectively, and the intensity of infection were 1.7, 34.4, 2, 4.5 and 2.9, respectively.

Highlights

During our studies on the digenean parasites of frogs of the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region, an analysis was made on the species composition of digenean parasites of E. cyanophlyctis
This paper deals with the digenean parasites found in E. cyanophlyctis of the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region with their prevalence and intensity of infection
Five species of digenetic trematodes, D. mehrai, T. ranarum, H. mehransis, G. glottoides and Ganeo tigrinum were found infecting the duodenum of the frog E. cyanophlyctis

Summary

Introduction

Amphibians, anurans, harbour a variety of adult and larval trematodes involving freshwater gastropods as first intermediate hosts in their life-cycles (Duda and Verma, 1996).The trematode fauna of amphibians ofIndia has been the subject of numerous investigations, including those by Mehra and Negi (1926a, b, l928), Bhalerao (1926, 1936a, b, c, 1937), Srivastava (1933a, b, 1934a, b), Pande (1937), Chauhan (1954), Gupta and Agrawal (1966, 1967), Pandey (1968, 1969a, b, 1981), Gupta (1970, 1977), Mukherjee and Ghosh (1970, 1972), Singh (1977) Janardanan et al (1987), Janardanan and ISSN 2358-2731/BJBS-2018-0065/5/11/12/747Braz. Four new species of digenetic trematodes from amphibian hosts were reported from Western Ghats by Shinad and Prasadan (2017a, b, 2018a, b). During our studies on the digenean parasites of frogs of the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region, an analysis was made on the species composition of digenean parasites of E. cyanophlyctis. This paper deals with the digenean parasites found in E. cyanophlyctis of the Western Ghats, Wayanad Region with their prevalence and intensity of infection.

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