Parasitism by <i>Ornithodoros faccinii</i> (Ixodida: Argasidae) on <i>Thoropa miliaris</i> (Anura: Cycloramphidae) in Brazil

Sá-Hungaro, Iwine Joyce Barbosa de; Luz, Hermes Ribeiro; Lourenço, Elizabete Captivo; Silva, Hélio Ricardo; Faccini, João Luíz Horácio; Famadas, Kátia Maria

doi:10.1080/01647954.2016.1260637

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“…Additionally, larval stages of O. puertoricensis were also reported by Bermúdez et al (2013), collected from the axillae of a specimen of Rhinella marina (Linnaeus, 1758) in Panama. Lastly, soft ticks corresponding to the recently described O. faccinii and O. saraivai were recorded as parasites of T. miliaris and Cycloramphus boraceiensis Heyer, 1983, in the states of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo respectively (BARROS-BATTESTI et al, 2015;SÁ-HUNGARO et al, 2016;MUÑOZ-LEAL et al, 2017b). To date, these two species are the sole amphibian-associated soft ticks in Brazil.…”

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First record of Ornithodoros faccinii (Acari: Argasidae) on toads of genus Rhinella (Anura: Bufonidae) in Brazil

Luz

Bezerra

Flausino

et al. 2018

Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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Although a group of soft ticks (Argasidae) associated with amphibians was recently discovered in Brazilian rainforests, parasitism by these ticks on cold-blooded animals remains less common than on mammal and bird species. In this study, we identified ticks that were collected from toads that had been caught in December 2016 and January 2017, at Itinguçú waterfall (22°54'05" S; 43°53'30" W) in the municipality of Itaguaí, state of Rio de Janeiro. Tick specimens were identified using a morphological and molecular approach. In total, twelve larvae of Ornithodoros ticks were collected from three individuals of Rhinella ornata and were identified as Ornithodoros faccinii. Our results include a longer 16S rRNA mitochondrial sequence for O. faccinii that supports its phylogenetic relatedness to Ornithodoros saraivai, and we report this tick species parasitizing Rhinella toads for the first time in Brazil.

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confidence: 94%