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A noteworthy infection of Clinostomum complanatum (Digenea: Clinostomidae) in a cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from northcentral Tennessee.

Publication: The Texas Journal of Science
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A noteworthy infection of Clinostomum complanatum (Digenea: Clinostomidae) in a cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from northcentral Tennessee.(GENERAL NOTES)(Report)

Article Excerpt
The cave salamander, Eurycea lucifuga inhabits karst areas of the Central Highlands of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma east through the Appalachians of Kentucky and Tennessee to Virginia and West Virginia (Conant & Collins 1998). It prefers the twilight zone of caves and occasionally is found near springs and seepage areas in riparian habitat. This salamander has been the subject of several parasite surveys, including those of Dyer & Brandon (1973) in southern Illinois, Dyer & Peck (1975) in Alabama and Tennessee, Castle et al. (1987) in western Kentucky, and McAllister et al. (2001) and McAllister & Bursey (2004) in northcentral Arkansas. Herein is presented new host and distribuional data on a trematode parasite of this salamander from Tennessee.

On 28 May 2006, an adult male E. lucifuga (SVL = 62 mm) was collected by hand from the aphotic zone of Flat Rock Cave (Tennessee Cave Survey Number SM66) in Smith County, Tennessee (36[degrees] 14.06'N, 86[degrees] 05.57'W). On closer examination, an 11.1 by 4.3 mm oval-shaped bloody lesion was noted on the right upper quadrant of the integument of this salamander (Fig. 1). This salamander was euthanized with a dilute Chloretone[R] (chlorobutanol) solution and the lesion was excised to reveal an unknown helminth, 2.5 mm deep within a capsule. The parasite was...

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