Skip to page content

Australian Green Tree frog (Litoria infrafrenata) Frogs come in all shapes and sizes. The largest frog in the world is the goliath frog (Conraua goliath), up to 30 centimetres long whereas one of the smallest is Psyllophryne didactyla, its body only grows to less than one centimetre.

Skip to page content

Primary navigation

Host-parasite database

Search criteria:

  • Parasite group: Acanthocephalans
  • Parasite subgroup: Gigantorhynchidae
  • Parasite genus: Mediorhynchus
  • Parasite species: micracanthus (Rudolphi, 1819)
  • Host genus: Sitta
  • Host species: europaea
References 1-2 of 2

Reference
1.    Parasite:  Mediorhynchus micracanthus (Rudolphi, 1819)    
  From:  Sitta europaea    In the wild
  Locality:  Bulgaria
  Reference:  Avian acanthocephalans in Bulgaria: morphological, taxonomic and faunistic investigations. [Abstract of thesis]
2.    Parasite:  Mediorhynchus micracanthus (Rudolphi, 1819)    
  From:  Sitta europaea    In the wild
  Locality:  Bulgaria
  Reference:  (Dimitrova, Z., Georgiev, B. & Genov, T.,) (2000) 'Review of the avian acanthocephalans from Bulgaria.' Acta Zoologica Bulgarica. Sofia. 52(3): 3-22