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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.

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  • Parasite group: Cestodes
  • Parasite subgroup: Mesocestoididae
  • Parasite genus: Mesocestoides
  • Parasite species: perlatus (Goeze, 1782)
  • Host genus: Accipiter
  • Host species: nisus
References 1-3 of 3

Reference
1.    Parasite:  Mesocestoides perlatus (Goeze, 1782)    
  From:  Accipiter nisus    In the wild
  Locality:  Czechoslovakia
  Reference:  (Rysavy, B. & Sitko, J.,) (1992) 'Tapeworms (Cestoda) of birds from Moravia (Czech and Slovak Federal Republik).' Prirodovedne Prace ustavu Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved v Brne 26(6-7): 1-93 , 63 figs.
2.    Parasite:  Mesocestoides perlatus (Goeze, 1782)    
  From:  Accipiter nisus    In the wild
  Locality:  Czechoslovakia
  Comments:  Not original
  Reference:  (Rysavy, B. & Sitko, J.,) (1995) 'New findings of tapeworms (Cestoda) of birds from Moravia and synopsis of bird cestodes from Czech Republic.' Prirodovedne Prace ustavu Ceskoslovenske Akademie Ved v Brne 29(5): 1-66 , 26 figs.
3.    Parasite:  Mesocestoides perlatus (Goeze, 1782)    
  From:  Accipiter nisus    In the wild
  Locality:  Czechoslovakia
  Reference:  (Sitko, J.,) (1994) 'Helminths of birds of prey (Falconiformes) and owls (Strigeiformes) in the Czech Republic and their influence on health condition of caged birds.' Zpravy Moravsky Ornithologicky Spolek 52: 53-84 , 1 tab. , (In Czech).