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Abstract Almeida WO, Brito SV, Ferreira FS, Christoffersen ML:
"First record of Cephalobaena tetrapoda (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenidae) as a parasite on Liophis lineatus (Ophidia: Colubridae) in Northeast Brazil",
Brazilian Journal of Biology 66 (2a) : 559-564 (May 2006)


Keywords   pentastomida, parasitism, snakes, neotropical region
Abstract   Cephalobaenidae constitutes one of the main pentastomid groups infecting the respiratory tract of snakes. Six specimens of Liophis lineatus, a colubrid, were collected by active capture and pitfalls installed on the banks of the Batateiras river, close to its source, in the ‘APA – Area de Protecao Ambiental’ (a protected environmental area of the ‘IBAMA – Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources’), and in a remnant of the humid tropical forest ‘FLONA – Floresta Nacional do Araripe’, both in the municipality of Crato, state of Ceara, Northeast Brazil. Out of the six specimens of L. lineatus examined, only one had its lung infected by the pentastomid Cephalobaena tetrapoda. This represents the first record of C. tetrapoda as a parasite of a snake in Northeast Brazil, as well as the first record of a colubrid, L. lineatus, as a new host for the pentastomid in Brazil.
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Almeida WODepartamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil walmeida@urca.br15
Brito SVUniversidade Regional do Cariri, Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, R. Cel. Antonio Luiz, 1161, CEP 63100-000, Crato, CE, Brazil  2
Christoffersen MLUniversidade Federal da Paraiba, CCEN, Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologia, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil  2
Ferreira FSUniversidade Regional do Cariri, Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, R. Cel. Antonio Luiz, 1161, CEP 63100-000, Crato, CE, Brazil  2

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