Five new species of Anthocoptini from China (Acari: Eriophyidae)
Author
Xue, Xiao-Feng
Author
Song, Zi-Wei
Author
Hong, Xiao-Yue
text
Zootaxa
2010
2010-07-21
2544
1
53
http://dx.doi.org/10.15468/um2vzb
journal article
10.15468/um2vzb
1175-5326
5303209
Dioctophyma renale
(
Goeze, 1782
)
*
Site of infection:
body cavity.
Recruitment:
ingestion.
Distribution:
Canada
:
Ontario
(
Mace & Anderson 1975
).
No specimens in collections.
Remarks:
This parasite has been found encapsulated in fishes; larvae can be transmitted along food chain of paratenic hosts (
Karmanova 1961
). Possibly American bullfrogs became infected with
D
.
renale
by eating parasitized frogs of different species (
Mace & Anderson 1975
).