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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: Trematodes
  • Parasite subgroup: Strigeidae
  • Parasite genus: Strigea
  • Parasite species: falconis Szidat, 1928
  • Host genus: Podiceps
  • Host species: grisegena
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Reference
1.    Parasite:  Strigea falconis Szidat, 1928    
  From:  Podiceps grisegena    In the wild
  Locality:  Freshwater & Terrestrial - no area specified
  Comments:  Not original; distribution and life-history data given in text
  Reference:  (Storer, R.W.,) (2000) 'The metazoan parasite fauna of grebes (Aves: Podicipediformes) and its relation ship to the birds' biology.' Miscellaneous Publications. Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. No. 188: 90 pp. , 7 tabs, 9 figs.
2.    Parasite:  Strigea falconis Szidat, 1928    
  From:  Podiceps grisegena    In the wild
  Locality:  Ukraine, incl. Moldavia
  Comments:  Not original; larva
  Reference:  [Catalogue of the helminths of Ukrainian vertebrates. Trematodes of terrestrial vertebrates.]
3.    Parasite:  Strigea falconis Szidat, 1928    
  From:  Podiceps grisegena    In the wild
  Locality:  European USSR (CIS)
  Comments:  Metacercaria
  Reference:  (Ivanov, V.M., Sudarikov, V.E. & Semenova, N.N.,) (2002) 'Species composition and long-term dynamics of bird trematode infection in the Volga delta.' Trudy Instituta Parazitologii. Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk. Moscow. 43: 132-145 , (Russian).