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A new species of Haematoloechus Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Plagiorchioidea: Haematoloechidae), a parasite of Rana psilonota Webb and R. zweifeli Hillis, Frost & Webb (Anura: Ranidae) in Mexico

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During an inventory of the helminths of amphibians in Mexico, specimens of an undescribed species of Haematoloechus Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Haematoloechidae) were collected from the lungs of frogs of the “tarahumarae” group in western México. Haematoloechus longicollum n. sp. differs from other known species of Haematoloechus by the combination of the following characters: body elongate and slender in the preovarian region and broad and blunt in the postovarian region, ovary separated from the ventral sucker more than twice the ovary length, oral sucker to pharynx length ratio 1:0.56, oral sucker to ventral sucker length ratio 1:0.80, presence of extracaecal uterine loops, absence of longitudinal extracaecal uterine loops, ovary and testes oval.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón, Aline Rojas-Sánchez, David Iván Hernández-Mena, David Osorio-Sarabia, Edmundo Pérez-Ramos, Elisa Cabrera-Guzmán, Elizabeth Martínez-Salazar, Florencia Bertoni-Ruiz, Luis Jorge García-Márquez, María Angélica Najar-Pacheco, María Antonieta Arizmendi-Espinoza, María Guadalupe Velarde-Aguilar and Rodolfo Pérez-Rodríguez for their help in the collection of specimens.

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This study was partially funded by PAPIIT-UNAM Proj. IN203911 and IN209414, CONACyT Proj. 54475 and 220408 to VLR and project NSF grant DEB01613802 to Jonathan Campbell (University of Texas) and VLR. ARRM was supported by a scholarship from CONACyT.

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  1. Estación de Biología Chamela, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, A.P. 21, CP 48980, San Patricio, Jalisco, Mexico

    Virginia León-Règagnon

  2. Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, AP 70-153, CP 04360, Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico

    Ángeles R. Romero-Mayén

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All applicable institutional, national and international guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. All specimens were collected under the scientific collection permit FAUT0056 issued to VLR.

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León-Règagnon, V., Romero-Mayén, Á.R. A new species of Haematoloechus Looss, 1899 (Digenea: Plagiorchioidea: Haematoloechidae), a parasite of Rana psilonota Webb and R. zweifeli Hillis, Frost & Webb (Anura: Ranidae) in Mexico. Syst Parasitol 94, 567–574 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9724-6

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