Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
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Endohelminths of the Ravine Salamander, Plethodon richmondi, from<br />
Southwestern West Virginia, U.S.A.<br />
MATTHEW B. EMERY AND JAMES E. JOY'<br />
Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia 25755, U.S.A.<br />
(e-mail: joy@marshall.edu)<br />
ABSTRACT: Four species of endohelminths were found<br />
in 51 ravine salamanders, Plethodon richmondi, from<br />
southwestern West Virginia in February, March, April,<br />
October, and November 1996, and February 1997. The<br />
nematode Angiostoma plethodontis had the highest<br />
prevalence (29.4%), and the trematode Brachycoelium<br />
storeriae had the highest mean intensity (2.3). Larvae<br />
of Batracholandros salamandrac were present in both<br />
the small and large intestines of 5 hosts. An unidentified<br />
acanthocephalan cystacanth was found encapsulated<br />
in the mesentery of a single host. Plethodon richmondi<br />
represents new host records for Angiostoma<br />
plethodontis and Brachycoelium storeriae, and West<br />
Virginia is a new locality record for all of the helminth<br />
species identified.<br />
KEY WORDS: Angiostoma plethodontis, Batracholandros<br />
salamandrae, Brachycoelium storeriae, Pleth-<br />
Corresponding author.<br />
odon richmondi, ravine salamander, West Virginia,<br />
U.S.A.<br />
The ravine salamander, Plethodon richmondi<br />
Netting and Mittleman, 1938, is a small, slender<br />
terrestrial plethodontid species inhabiting the<br />
wooded slopes of valleys and ravines from western<br />
Pennsylvania south to northeastern Tennessee<br />
and northwestern North Carolina and west<br />
to southeastern Indiana (Green and Pauley,<br />
1987). In a parasite survey of plethodontid salamanders<br />
in Tennessee, Dunbar and Moore<br />
(1979) reported 2 species of helminths from P.<br />
richmondi\e tapeworm Cylindrotaenia americana<br />
Trowbridge and Hefley, 1934, and the<br />
nematode Batracholandros salamandrae (Schad,<br />
1960) Fetter and Quentin, 1976. Fifteen P. rich-<br />
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