Strigea elegans Chandler & Rausch, 1947
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https://doi.org/ 10.15468/um2vzb |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5310281 |
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persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/006D2C05-3878-AE00-FF63-6D2AFC77FDA5 |
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Felipe |
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Strigea elegans Chandler & Rausch, 1947 |
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Strigea elegans Chandler & Rausch, 1947 View in CoL *
Site of infection: muscles of tadpoles.
Recruitment: penetration.
Distribution: USA ( Miller et al., 1965a, 1965b, 1965c).
No specimens in collections.
Remarks: This species is parasite of strigiformes. Lithobates catesbeianus and other anurans were infected with the mesocercariae of this species under experimental conditions ( Miller et al. 1965a, 1965b, 1965c), but it has never been recorded in amphibians in the wild.
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