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Description ofCosmocerca longispicula sp. nov. (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae), a parasite of a dendrobatid frog from Martinique, French Antilles

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Cosmocerca longispicula sp. nov. (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae), a new cosmocercid nematode discovered in the intestine of a new dendrobatid frog from Martinique, French Antilles, is described and illustrated. It is unique in possessing unusually long, well-sclerotized spicules (length, 0.294–0.300 mm; length ratio of gubernaculum and spicules, 1: 2.1–2.2), a feature that necessitates emendation of the definition for the genusCosmocerca. C. longispicula is the first known species ofCosmocerca from the Caribbean region. A new name,C. paraguayensis nom. nov., is proposed forC. uruguayensis Moravec and Baruš, 1990, a homonym toC. uruguayensis Lent and Freitas, 1948.

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    Present address: Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Würzburg, Biozentrum, Am Hubland, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany

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  1. Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 37005, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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  2. Redpath Museum, McGill University, 859 Sherbrooke Street West, H3A 2K6, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Moravec, F., Kaiser, H. Description ofCosmocerca longispicula sp. nov. (Nematoda: Cosmocercidae), a parasite of a dendrobatid frog from Martinique, French Antilles. Parasitol Res 80, 29–32 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00932620

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