| pesticide residues in two frog species in a paddy agroecosystem in palakkad district, kerala, india. | pesticides residues were quantified in 109 frogs comprising two species (fejervarya limnocharis and hoplobatrachus crassus) from organic and conventional paddy farms in kerala, india. seven frogs from conventional but none from the organic farms revealed deformities. levels of total organochlorines (ocs) (33.22 ng/g) and synthetic pyrethroid, fenvalerate-ii (26.91/42.15 ng/g) in deformed f. limnocharis and h. crassus were significantly greater than in healthy frogs. among ocs in healthy frogs, t ... | 2014 | 25173364 |
| description of a new species of cosmocerca diesing, 1861 (nematoda: cosmocercidae) in hoplobatrachus crassus (jerdon, 1853) (anura: dicroglossidae) from asansol coal-field area, west bengal, india. | a new cosmocercid nematode species, cosmocerca asansolensis sp. nov. (ascaridida, cosmocercidae) is described from an indian bullfrog, hoplobatrachus crassus (jerdon, 1853), from asansol town, paschim bardhaman district, west bengal, india. this species is characterized by the presence of five pairs of plectanes supporting preanal papillae, absence of somatic papillae in females, and having one pair large postanal papillae, a single papilla on the upper lip of cloaca, a single papilla on the low ... | 2020 | 33056202 |
| aplectana hoplobatrachusia sp. nov. (nematoda: cosmocercidae) in hoplobatrachus crassus (jerdon, 1853) (anura: dicroglossidae) from birbhum district, west bengal, india. | aplectana hoplobatrachusia sp. nov., recovered from the rectum of jordon's bullfrog, hoplobatrachus crassus, (jerdon, 1853) collected from lohagram in the birbhum district of west bengal, india, is described and illustrated. this species is characterised by absence of a gubernaculum and differs from other species of aplectana which lack a gubernaculum (viz. a. akhrami, a. artigasi, a. chilensis, a. crossodactyli, a. crucifer, a. delirae, a. dubrajpuri, a. meridionalis, a. papillifera, a. praeput ... | 2018 | 30313389 |