Further observations on the protozoan, Myxidium serotinum, inhabiting the gall bladder of north American Salientia
✍ Scribed by Richard R. Kudo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1943
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 875 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0362-2525
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✦ Synopsis
I n a former paper it was noted that North American frogs harbor in their gall bladder an unrecorded species of Myxosporidia, Myxidium serotinum, the spores of which are distinctly different from those of M. immersum, the long-known South American form (Kudo and Sprague, '40). Since December, 1940, examinations of four species of frogs and toads have been carried on from time to time f o r this myxosporidian. New data thus collected are summarized in the present paper f o r the purpose of supplementing the already published accounts.
I n all, seventy-nine specimens belonging to four species of Salientia from Florida and Louisiana have been examined. Of these thirty-two were found to harbor Myxidium serotinum in their gall bladders. The host species names, localities from which they were obtained, dates, and numbers examined and found infected, are as follows : ~