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Two New Trematodes from Petropedates natator Boulenger, in Sierra Leone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Modupe O. Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Fourah Bay College, The University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Millicent R. Coker
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Fourah Bay College, The University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Extract

1. A number of frogs (Petropedates natator) from a stream at Mount Aureol, Freetown, Sierra Leone were found to be infected with two species of trematodes in the intestine and one species of trematode in the lung.

2. One of the trematodes from the intestine is considered to be a new species and named Plenrogenoides peiropedatis and the trematode from the lung is considered to be a new subspecies and named Haematoloechus (Haematoloechus) variegatus leonensis.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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