Gorgoderina diaster Lutz, 1926

Aguiar, Aline, Morais, Drausio Honorio, Firmino Silva, Lidiane A., Anjos, Luciano Alves Dos, Foster, Ottilie Carolina & Silva, Reinaldo José Da, 2021, Biodiversity of anuran endoparasites from a transitional area between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil: new records and remarks, Zootaxa 4948 (1), pp. 1-41 : 20

Gorgoderina diaster Lutz, 1926

Hosts (prevalence; range): B. raniceps (14/79; 1–15).

Site of infection: urinary bladder.

Stage: adult.

Type host and type locality: L. palmipes (= R. palmipes ), Maracay, Venezuela.

Comments: species of Gorgoderina are known to infect urinary bladder and ureters of amphibians. Fernandes (1958) maintained the subgenera in the species of Gorgoderina and published the second description of Gorgoderina diaster [= Gorgoderina (Metagorgoderina) diaster ] from a single specimen of Lutz’s original description. Mata- Lopéz et al. (2005) improved this description adding morphologic details and increasing the number of specimens in the study. In this way, our specimens presented similar features to G. diaster which are mainly the absence of cirrus sac and cirrus, testes in tandem and vitellaria in two clusters anterior to ovary – the right cluster with 12–13 follicles and the left with 7–8 (see Fernandes 1958; Mata-Lopéz et al. 2005). This is the first record of G. diaster in Brazil as well as the first occurrence in B. raniceps since the other records are from Colombia, Venezuela, and Costa Rica ( Mata-Lopéz et al. 2005; Kohn & Fernandes 2014).