Diestecostoma mexicanum (Baird)

Paredes-León, Ricardo, García-Prieto, Luis, Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, León-Règagnon, Virginia & Pérez, Tila M., 2008, Metazoan parasites of Mexican amphibians and reptiles, Zootaxa 1904, pp. 1-166 : 69

publication ID

1175­5334

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA5C87CB-4E12-C85E-FF05-3789FAB5FBBD

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Diestecostoma mexicanum (Baird)
status

 

Diestecostoma mexicanum (Baird)

Amphibia (A): NA.

DISTRITO FEDERAL: Desierto de los Leones: Bolitoglossa sp. , Ambystoma altamirani ( Caballero, 1940c) . ESTADO DE MÉXICO: Tenancingo: Undetermined amphibian ( Caballero, 1941d; Ringuelet, 1944).

PUEBLA: Volcán de Orizaba : Ambystoma altamirani ( Caballero, 1940c) .

Specimens deposited: CNHE (1718–1719, 1721).

Notes: The specimens described by Caballero (1940c) as Hygrobdella pelaezi were synonymized with Diestecostoma mexicanum by Moore (1946). Caballero (1940c) found the leeches co-existing with salamanders and based on this finding, established salamanders as definitive hosts for this parasite.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Annelida

Class

Clitellata

Order

Arhynchobdellida

Family

Haemadipsidae

Genus

Diestecostoma

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Amphibia

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