| distribution and reproductive strategies of gyrinicola batrachiensis (oxyuroidea: pharyngodonidae) in larvae of eight species of amphibians from nebraska. | abstract a total of 462 tadpoles and salamander larvae of 8 species was examined for the presence of gyrinicola batrachiensis from 5 locations in nebraska. infection by g. batrachiensis occurred in tadpoles of rana blairi, r. catesbeiana, r. pipiens, and bufo woodhousii. tadpoles of hyla chrysoscelis, spea bombifrons, and pseudacris maculata and larvae of ambystoma mavortium were not infected with g. batrachiensis. population structure, defined as prevalence, mean abundance, and mean intensity o ... | 2011 | 21506837 |
| a new species of myxidium (myxosporea: myxidiidae), from the western chorus frog, pseudacris triseriata triseriata, and blanchard's cricket frog, acris crepitans blanchardi (hylidae), from eastern nebraska: morphology, phylogeny, and critical comments on amphibian myxidium taxonomy. | during march 2001-april 2004, 164 adult anurans of 6 species (47 rana blairi, 35 rana catesbeiana, 31 hyla chrysoscelis, 31 pseudacris triseriata triseriata, 11 bufo woodhousii, and 9 acris crepitans blanchardi) from pawnee lake, lancaster county, nebraska, were surveyed for myxozoan parasites. of these, 20 of 31 (65%) p. triseriata triseriata and 1 of 9 (11%) a. crepitans blanchardi were infected with a new species of myxidium. myxidium melleni n. sp. (myxosporea) is described from the gallblad ... | 2006 | 16884007 |
| observations on the life history and descriptions of coccidia (apicomplexa) from the western chorus frog, pseudacris triseriata triseriata, from eastern nebraska. | two hundred and twenty-four anurans of 6 species (47 adults and 16 tadpoles of rana blairi, 35 r. catesbeiana, 31 hyla chrysoscelis, 30 adults and 46 tadpoles of pseudacris triseriata triseriata, 11 bufo woodhousii, and 8 acris crepitans) from pawnee lake, lancaster county, nebraska, were surveyed for coccidian parasites during march 2001 to may 2002. of these, 23 of 30 (77%) adults and 4 of 46 (9%) tadpoles of p. t. triseriata shed oocysts of isospora cogginsi n. sp. oocysts of i. cogginsi were ... | 2003 | 12880252 |