RHABDITIDAE Örley, 1880

Goldberg, Stephen R., Bursey, Charles R., Kusamba, Chifundera, Mali, Franck M., Department, Eli Greenbaum, College, Whittier, Department, Usa, University, Pennsylvania State, Campus, Shenango, d’Hérpétologie, Usa Laboratoire, Biologie, Département de, Recherche, Centre de & Naturelles, Sciences, 2021, Helminths from three common species of African Toads (Anura, Bufonidae, Sclerophrys), Alytes 38 (1 - 4), pp. 49-57 : 53

RHABDITIDAE Örley, 1880

Twenty six species of Rhabdias Stiles & Hassall, 1905 are known from Africa ( Kuzmin & Tkach 2020). Rhabdias bufonis was recently reported in Sclerophrys [as Amietophrynus Frost et al., 2006 ] regularis in Egypt by Morsy et al. (2018). Rhabdias bufonis has heterogonic free-living stages that become reproducing adults which produce infective larvae ( Baker 1979). Infective larvae of Rhabdias americanus Baker, 1978 , R. ranae Walton, 1929 and presumably other species of Rhabdias in amphibians infect the host by skin penetration; larvae then reach the body cavity of the host and invade the lungs where they mature and produce eggs ( Baker 1979). Rhabdias bufonis in S. pusilla is a new host record.