Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, Panamá, Republic of Panama.
Department of Biology, Geology and Physical Sciences, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas 79832, USA.
J Wildl Dis. 2020 Jul;56(3):667-672. doi: 10.7589/2018-05-121. Epub 2020 Feb 4.
is a small terrestrial bufonid that occurs in Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama. Between January 2014 and October 2015, we inspected 339 from Panama and report myiasis in eight of these toads. All infested toads were male and presented with mobile dark fly larvae visible beneath the ventral skin. At necropsy, we identified the larvae as belonging to the family Sarcophagidae (flesh flies). Flesh flies have been variously considered as predators, parasitoids, and parasites of anurans. There are at least four species of flesh flies that infect adult amphibians in the Neotropics, with the most common and widespread being . Myiasis has only rarely been reported in Panamanian anurans. Anuran cases of sarcophagid myiasis are usually fatal and we suspect myiasis as the cause of death for the that died in the current study.
是一种小型的陆生蟾蜍，分布于厄瓜多尔、哥伦比亚和巴拿马。在 2014 年 1 月至 2015 年 10 月期间，我们检查了巴拿马的 339 只蟾蜍，并报告了其中 8 只蟾蜍的蝇蛆病。所有受感染的蟾蜍均为雄性，可见到移动的黑色蝇幼虫在腹部皮肤下。在尸检时，我们确定幼虫属于麻蝇科（肉蝇科）。肉蝇科被认为是各种捕食者、寄生蜂和无尾两栖类动物的寄生虫。至少有四种肉蝇科的蝇类会感染新热带地区的成年两栖动物，其中最常见和分布最广的是 。蝇蛆病在巴拿马的无尾两栖动物中很少有报道。无尾两栖动物的肉蝇科蝇蛆病通常是致命的，我们怀疑蝇蛆病是本研究中死亡的蟾蜍的死因。
