Cosmocerca, Diesing, 1861

Aguiar, Aline, Morais, Drausio Honorio, Firmino Silva, Lidiane A., Anjos, Luciano Alves Dos, Foster, Ottilie Carolina & Silva, Reinaldo José Da, 2021, Biodiversity of anuran endoparasites from a transitional area between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado biomes in Brazil: new records and remarks, Zootaxa 4948 (1), pp. 1-41 : 10

Cosmocerca sp.

Hosts (prevalence; range): S. fuscovarius (2/51; 1–2).

Site of infection: small intestine.

Stage: adult.

Type host and type locality: not informed.

Comments: anurans of the genus Scinax from Cuzco, Peru have been reported as host for Cosmocerca parva and Cosmocerca brasiliensis Travassos ( Bursey et al. 2001) . However, morphological characters of only two specimens did not allow us to confirm the specific identification of this Cosmocerca ; and none of these species even reported to Scinax spp. could be considered since the number and arrangement of male’s caudal plectanes and size and morphology of spicules and gubernaculum did not correspond to our specimens. The morphometric data of some characters could correspond to Cosmocerca chilensis Lent & Freitas , however we believed unsuitable to assume it considering only two specimens. For South America, Campi„o et al. (2014) compiled six records of Cosmocerca sp. in six species of amphibians from the families Hylidae , Leptodactylidae and Bufonidae , and anurans of Dendrobatidae were reported by Tavares-Costa et al. (2019) in Amazon region.