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Article summary:
| 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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| Name | Affiliation | Home page | Total pubs | |
| Almeida WO | Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, Universidade Regional do Cariri, Crato, CE, Brazil | walmeida@urca.br | 15 | |
| Brito SV | Universidade Regional do Cariri, Departamento de Ciencias Fisicas e Biologicas, R. Cel. Antonio Luiz, 1161, CEP 63100-000, Crato, CE, Brazil | 2 | ||
| Christoffersen ML | Universidade Federal da Paraiba, CCEN, Departamento de Sistematica e Ecologia, Joao Pessoa, PB, Brazil | 2 | ||
| Ferreira FS | Universidade 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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