Endoparasite of Two Species of Edible Frogs, Limnonectes macrodon, Boie and Fejevarya cancrivora, Gravenhorst, from Bogor, Indonesia

Abstract

Seventy five Limnonectes macrodon and 50 Fejeroarya cancrivora collected from three subdistrict in Bogor were analysed for endoparasite. We found eleven species of parasite seven species from the phylum Nematoda (Rhabditidia, spirurida, Heterokiodea, Oxyurida, Oxyuris spp., Cosmocercoidea, Ascaridida). One species from the class cestoda (pleurocercoid larvae) and three species fromthe class Trematoda (Haematoloechus, Allocreadiidae, Paramphistomidae). Most species and individual parasites were found in the frogs digestive tracts.