Rauschiella palmipedis ( Lutz, 1928 ) Sullivan, 1977

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Rauschiella palmipedis ( Lutz, 1928) Sullivan, 1977

Hosts (prevalence; range): L. chaquensis (2/143; 1–2), L. fuscus (2/50; 1), L. latrans (1/20; 1), and R. diptycha (1/21; 1).

Site of infection: small intestine.

Stage: adult.

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

Comments: originally, R. palmipedis was described as Haplometra palmipedis by Lutz (1928); Travassos (1930) examined the type specimens and considered H. palmipedis as a species of Glypthelmins but no specific description was provided. However, Sullivan (1977) in a revision of the genus Rauschiella redescribed the species as R. palmipedis found in R. marina and L. bolivianus from eastern Venezuela. The main characters of R. palmipedis that we observed were: elongated body, small acetabulum, large pharynx, ovary dextral and just below to acetabulum, uterus intertesticular reaching pretesticular zone, and caeca reaching the posterior end of the body with uterine loops fill the intercaecal region. This species is widely distributed in anurans from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela, mainly in leptodactylids ( Kohn & Fernandes 2014).