ANURA, Fischer von Waldheim, 1813

Duszynski, Donald W., Bolek, Matthew G. & Upton, Steve J., 2007, Coccidia (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) of amphibians of the world, Zootaxa 1667 (1667), pp. 1-77 : 64-65

ANURA (frogs)

Incertae sedis (16)

Eimeria sp. 1 ( Eimer, 1870) Upton and McAllister 1988, incertae sedis

Host: Pelophylax esculenta , (L. 1758), Pool frog.

Remarks: No oocysts were measured or described (see Eimer 1870; Upton &

McAllister 1988).

Eimeria sp. of Fantham and Porter 1947, incertae sedis

Host: Lithobates clamitans (Latreille In Sonnini de Manoncourt & Latreille 1801) Green frog.

Remarks: Fantham and Porter (1947) collected 1 Necturus maculosus , 1 Anaxyrus americanus , 5 L. catesbeianus, 3 L. pipiens, and 3 L. clamitans from Lad Des Sableets, north-west of Montreal, Canada and reported seeing a few Eimeria oocysts in a single female green frog without giving any description of the oocysts.

Eimeria sp. of Hegner and Chu 1930, incertae sedis

Host: Fejervarya vittigera (Wiegmann 1834) , Luzon wart frog.

Remarks: The report of Hegner and Chu (1930) is of an unidentified coccidium in F. vittigera from the Philippines; it is not complete enough, and makes this species of Eimeria of uncertain taxonomic position.

Eimeria sp. 2 ( Pachinger 1886) Upton and McAllister 1988, incertae sedis

Synonym: Molybdis entzii Pachinger 1886.

Host: Pelophylax esculenta , (L. 1758), Pool frog.

Remarks: Mention was made only of an ovoidal oocyst, 30 x 13.

Isospora sp. of Chakravarty and Kar 1944, incertae sedis

Synonym: Eimeria wenyoni Ray and Das Gupta 1935 of Chakravarty and Kar 1944.

Hosts: Fejervarya limnocharis (Gravenhorst 1829) , Indian cricket frog; Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin 1802) , Tiger frog.

Remaks: See Remarks in Isospora wenyoni .

Isospora sp. of Grassi, 1882, incertae sedis.

Host: Bufo spp. (?).

Remarks: Mention has been made of an isosporan in Bufo spp. (?) by a number of authors ( Grassi 1882; Grassi & Feletti 1892; Labbé 1899; Walton 1941), but little else is known about it.

Isospora sp. of Kazubski and Grabda-Kazubska 1973, incertae sedis

Host: Rana arvalis Nilsson 1842 , Moor frog.

Remarks: Oocysts are subspheroidal, 21–22 x 19–20 and sporocysts are 16.2 x 12.8 (15–18.5 x 12–14.5); this species was found in Poland.

Unsporulated oocyst 1 of Rzepczyk, 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Chaunus (= Bufo ) marinus (L. 1758), Cane toad.

Remarks: Rzepczyk (1976) mentioned seeing 1 spheroidal, unsporulated oocyst in the intestinal contents of a cane toad, C. marinus .

Unsporulated oocyst 2 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Chaunus (= Bufo ) marinus (L. 1758), Cane toad.

Remarks: Rzepczyk (1976) found what she said was a subspheroidal unsporulated oocyst, 28 x 26.6, in the intestinal contents of a second cane toad C. marinus .

Unsporulated oocyst 3 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Chaunus (= Bufo ) marinus (L. 1758), Cane toad.

Remarks: Rzepcyzk (1976) found 2 unsporulated oocysts of a third coccidium in the intestinal contents of a third cane toad, C. marnius . These were 28 x 28 and 26.6 x 23.6 and were were similar to her unsporulated oocyst 2, but neither sporulated.

Unsporulated oocyst 4 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Chaunus (= Bufo ) marinus (L. 1758), Cane toad.

Remarks: Rzepcyzk (1976) found two other oocysts in the third cane toad. The first was another unsporulated oocyst, 26.6 x 26.6, with a thick brown wall and an “elaborate” M.

Isospora- like oocysts/sporocysts 5 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Chaunus (= Bufo ) marinus (L. 1758), Cane toad.

Remarks: In the third cane toad mentioned above, she also diagnosed Isospora sporocysts with four sporozoites. Sporocysts (N=12) were 19.2 x 10.0 (22–16 x 10–8), L/W of 1.9 (1.6–2.1) and with a “prominent” sporocyst wall and an ovoidal SR, 6.4 x 4.5.

Unsporulated oocyst 6 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Litoria caerulea (White 1790) , Whites treefrog.

Remarks: In 6 of 12 treefrogs she saw 3 distinct coccidian types, but no treefrogs had more than one type. The first morphotype she saw was an unsporulated oocyst that was heart-shaped, 39.2 x 33.6, with a thick, brown wall and an “elaborate” M. She only saw 2 oocysts in 1 frog.

Unsporulated oocyst 7 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Litoria caerulea (White 1790) , Whites treefrog.

Remarks: Her second morphotype was seen in each of 3 of the 12 treefrogs examined; in these she saw 1 unsporulated oocyst; each of which was broadly ovoidal, 28 x 25.

Isospora (?) sp. 8 of Rzepczyk 1976, incertae sedis

Host: Litoria caerulea (White 1790) , Whites treefrog.

Remarks: The third morphotype she reported in the L. caerulea she examined were spheroidal to ovoidal, colorless oocysts that sporulated in 6 days in K 2 Cr 2 O 7. She identified these oocysts as being an Isospora sp. that measured 16.8–20.7 x 14.0–16.8. This form was found in only 2 frogs with “only 1–4 oocysts in the total rectal contents of each frog.”

Isospora sp. of Wenyon 1926, incertae sedis

Host: Bufo bufo (L. 1758), Common European toad.

Remarks: Endogenous sporulation in epithelial cells of the intestine.