HETERAKIDAE Railliet & Henry, 1912

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

HETERAKIDAE Railliet & Henry, 1912

The genus Meteterakis Karve, 1930 is known mainly from reptiles and amphibians from Asia and Oceania ( Baker 1987). Meteterakis species have a direct life cycle ( Anderson 2000). Infective eggs are ingested by the host ( Anderson 2000). Because we recovered only a single specimen, we were unable to assign it to a species. To our knowledge, M. saotomensis Junker, Mariaux, Measey & Mutafchiev, 2015 , described from Schistometopum thomense (Bocage 1873) ( Gymnophiona ) collected on São Tomé Island in the Gulf of Guinea is the only species known from the Ethiopian Region ( Junker et al. 2015). Our specimen may represent an undescribed species of Meteterakis . Meteterakis sp. in S. gutturalis is a new host record.