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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: Plagiorchiidae
  • Parasite genus: Dolichosaccus
  • Parasite species: symmetrus (Johnston, 1912)
  • Host genus: Bufo
  • Host species: marinus
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Reference
1.    Parasite:  Dolichosaccus symmetrus (Johnston, 1912)    
  From:  Bufo marinus    In the wild
  Locality:  Queensland
  Reference:  (Barton, D.P.,) (1994) 'A checklist of helminth parasites of Australian Amphibia.' Records of the South Australian Museum 27(1): 13-30
2.    Parasite:  Dolichosaccus symmetrus (Johnston, 1912)    
  From:  Bufo marinus    In the wild
  Locality:  Australia
  Comments:  not original
  Reference:  (Barton, D.P.,) (1997) 'Introduced animals and their parasites: The cane toad, Bufo marinus, in Australia.' Australian Journal of Ecology. Carlton. 22: 316-324 , 1 tab.