Opalinidae (Sarcomastigophora) in North American Amphibia. GenusProtoopalina Metcalf, 1918 |
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| Authors: | B L J Delvinquier S S Desser J Johnson |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, M5S 1A1 Toronto, Ontario, Canada;(2) Department of Biology, El Paso Community College, PO Box 20500, 79998 El Paso, Texas, USA |
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| Abstract: | During 1992, 83 specimens of North American Amphibia from Algonquin Park and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and from El Paso County, Texas USA, comprising 14 species in seven families, were checked for opalinids in the cloaca.Protoopalina allisteri n. sp. is described from oneGastrophryne carolinensis (Microhylidae) from Arkansas andP. mitotica was found in one of fourScaphiopus multiplicatus (Pelobatidae) from Texas. The North American species ofProtoopalina are reviewed.Zelleriella ovoidea (Metcalf, 1923) is proposed as a new combination forP. ovoidea. |
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