Fauna helmintológica en anuros chilenos / Helminthological fauna of chilean anura

ABSTRACT

In this paper a list of the endoparasites described for the chilean frogs and toads is presented. Also it is indicated the locality of the hosts, prevalence and intensity of the infection. Nine species of parasites have been described; three trematodes Gorgoderina chilensis in Rhinoderma darwinii, Gorgoderina valdiviensis in Caudiverbera caudiverbera and Rudolphitrema chilensis in Eusophus roseus; two cestodes Ophiotaenia noei in C. caudiverbera and Baerietta chilensis in Batrachyla taeniata; three nematodes Aplectana chilensis and Cosmicerca chilensis in R. darwinii and Oswaldocruzia neghmei in Hylorina sylvatica, Eusophus miqueli, Eusophus vertebralis and E. roseus and one acanthocephala Acanthocephalus caspanensis in Bufo spinulosus