| metacercariae of clinostomum attenuatum in ambystoma tigrinum mavortium, bufo cognatus and spea multiplicata from west texas. | tissues from barred tiger salamanders (ambystoma tigrinum mavortium), great plains toads (bufo cognatus) and new mexico spadefoots (spea multiplicata) collected from 16 playa wetlands in texas during 1999 and 2000 were examined by light microscopy. digenean cysts were primarily distributed subcutaneously throughout the specimens and occasionally coelomic invasion was noted. the parasites within the cysts were 1.5-2 mm in diameter, with a thin (c. 10 microm wide) eosinophilic-staining tegument, t ... | 2004 | 15575998 |
| larval hannemania sp. infestations of spea spp. in the southern high plains, texas, usa. | we describe a case history of larval hannemania sp. (acari: trombiculidae) infestations in two spadefoot toads (spea spp. anura: pelobatidae) captured from playa wetlands in the southern high plains, texas. hannemania sp. larvae were superficially attached to the skin, not encysted, and dermal changes were not observed. gross field examinations revealed a presumed occurrence of hannemania sp. in spea spp. at four of 24 wetlands in 2003 and 2004. although other species of amphibians were present ... | 2007 | 17984273 |