@article {BrockAndFont2009,
	title = {Helminths of the western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) in Bayou Traverse, Louisiana, USA},
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {76},
	number = {2},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {210-221},
	author = {Brock, Sarah and Font, William F.}
}
@article {Schotthoefer:2009nx,
	title = {Parasites of the Mink Frog (Rana septentrionalis) from Minnesota, USA},
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {76},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {240-246},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, ACCT$\#$ 141866, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Twenty-two mink frogs, Rana septentrionalis, collected from two locations in Minnesota, United States, were examined for helminth and Protozoan blood parasites in July 1999. A total of 16 parasite taxa were recovered including 5 larval digenean trematodes, 7 adult digenean trematodes, 3 nematodes, and 1 Trypanosoma species. Infracommunities were dominated by the digeneans in terms of richness and abundance. In particular, echinostomatid metacercariae in the kidneys of frogs were the most common parasites found, infecting 100\% of the frogs and consisting of about 90\% of all helminth individuals recovered. Gorgodera amplicava, Gorgoderina multilobata, Haematoloechus parviplexus, Haematoloechus breviplexus, Cosmocercoides dukae, and Oswaldocruzia pipiens represent new host records. The survey presented here represents the second known helminth survey of mink frogs conducted in North America. A Summary of metazoan parasites reported from mink frogs is included.},
	keywords = {Apharyngostrigea pipientis, Cephalogonimus americanus, Cosmocercoides dukae, echinostomatid, Fibricola, Gorgodera amplicava, Gorgoderina multilobata, Haematoloechus breviplexus, Haematoloechus longiplexus, Haematoloechus parviplexus, helminths, Loxogenes arcanum, mink frog, Minnesota, Oswaldocruzia pipiens, plagiorchiid, Rana septentrionalis, Trypanosoma pipientis},
	author = {Schotthoefer, Anna M. and Bolek, Matthew G. and Cole, Rebecca A. and Beasley, Val R.}
}
@article {Moser:2008lk,
	title = {Placobdella cryptobranchii (Rhynchobdellida : glossiphoniidae) on Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi (Ozark Hellbender) in Arkansas and Missouri},
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {75},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {98-101},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, ACCT$\#$ 141866, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Placobdella cryptobranchii is a rarely collected leech of the Ozark hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, U.S.A. Between October 2002 and August 2005, 58 hellbenders were examined from Eleven Point River (Randolph Co., Arkansas and Oregon Co., Missouri), the north fork of the White River (Ozark Co., Missouri), and the Spring River (Fulton Co., Arkansas). Forty-one of the 58 hellbenders (70.7\%) were infested with 1-140 leeches with a mean intensity (+/- SD) of 8.7 (+/- 22.1) and a relative abundance (+/- SD) of 6.3 (+/- 18.9). Contingency table analysis and t-tests revealed no significant differences in prevalence and mean intensity among various years and localities sampled. Leech size did not substantially change over the time period sampled. The dorsal pigmentation of live specimens of P. cryptobranchii is described for the first time.},
	keywords = {Arkansas, Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi, Desserobdella, Glossiphoniidae, Missouri, Ozark Hellbender, Placobdella cryptobranchii, Rhynchobdellida},
	author = {Moser, William E. and Richardson, Dennis J. and Wheeler, Benjamin A. and Irwin, Kelly J. and Daniels, Bruce A. and Trauth, Stanley E. and Klemm, Donald J.}
}
@article {Moser:2005lh,
	title = {Life history and distribution of the leech Oligobdella biannulata (Moore, 1900) (Euhirudinea : Glossiphoniidae)},
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {17-21},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Oligobdella biannulata is a rare, endemic leech species originally described from a mountain stream near Blowing Rock, North Carolina, U.S.A. Specimens of O. biannulata were collected seasonally (fall 1999-summer 2002), documenting new county records from North Carolina and South Carolina and new state records from Georgia and Tennessee, U.S.A. Fifty-one percent of Desmognathus quadramaculatus and 50\% of Desmognathus marmoratus were parasitized with O. biannulata. Between late May and early July, O. biannulata leaves its salamander host to lay 15-30 bright yellow, yolky eggs and brood them on its ventral surface. Eggs hatch in 10-20 d, and in about 50 d both hatchlings and adult search for a blood meal. Oligobdella biannulata reattaches to its host between late August and early October. When a desmognathine salamander host is found the adult leech attaches and hatchlings leave the adult, attaching singly or in clusters on the limbs or axillary and inguinal regions of the salamander, blood feeding, and overwintering on the host.},
	keywords = {desmognathinae, Desmognathus marmoratus, Desmognathus quadramaculatus, Euhirudinea, Glossiphonidae, Hirudinea, Oligobdella biannulata, Rhynchobdellida, salamanders},
	author = {Moser, WE and Van Devender, RW and Klemm, DJ}
}
@article {Klemm:2003ek,
	title = {Biology of the leech Actinobdella inequiannulata Moore, 1901 (Annelida : Hirudinea : Rhynchobdellida : Glossiphoniidae), parasitic on the white sucker, Catostomus commersoni Lacepede, 1803, and the longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus Forster, 1773, in },
	journal = {Comparative Parasitology},
	volume = {70},
	year = {2003},
	pages = {120-127},
	publisher = {HELMINTHOLOGICAL SOC WASHINGTON},
	address = {C/O ALLEN PRESS INC, 1041 NEW HAMPSHIRE ST, LAWRENCE, KS 66044 USA},
	abstract = {Actinobdella inequiannulata was found on the white sucker. Catostomus commersoni, and less frequently on the longnose sucker, Catostomus catostomus, in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada. Catostomus commersoni parasitized with Act. inequiannulata was collected from July to October 1973 and May to October 1974. In May and October, less than 3\% of the fish carried leeches. In July, 80\% of the fish were parasitized with an average of 1.5 leeches/fish. Observations on leech weight suggest that young leeches attach to fish from May to September, some mature in July, and a second generation of leeches reparasitize the fish in August and September. The mean size of leeches on suckers increased from May until July, after which the size remained relatively constant. Leeches produced characteristic lesions on the opercula of suckers. Fully developed lesions on fish opercula produced by aggregated leeches had varying amounts of central erosion, extravasation, dermal and epidermal hyperplasia, and necrosis.},
	keywords = {Actinobdella annectens, Actinobdella inequiannulata, Actinobdella pediculata, Actinobdella triannulata, Algonquin Provincial Park, benthic invertebrate, Canada, Catostomus catostomus, Catostomus commersoni, feeding behavior, fish parasite, freshwater annelid, leech, longnose sucker, Myzobdella lugubris, Ontario, parasitism, white sucker},
	author = {Klemm, DJ and Daniels, BA and Moser, WE and Lester, RJG}
}
