Vélez Michelle, Rödel Mark-Oliver, Carvajal Vladimir, Donoso David A, Guerra Mónica A
Laboratorio de Herpetología, Departamento de Biología, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador.
Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115, Berlin, Germany.
Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl. 2025 May 31;27:101093. doi: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2025.101093. eCollection 2025 Aug.
We report a case of myiasis in the poison frog from the Canandé Reserve located in the Chocó region of northwestern Ecuador. We identified the causal agents as larvae of flesh flies, Sarcophagidae, by means of DNA barcoding and morphological features. This represents the first record of myiasis in an anuran in Ecuador and the second record for Dendrobatidae in the Neotropics. This observation may constitute a case of facultative parasitism where larvae are deposited in the frog's wounds, but further research is needed to understand the biological mechanisms underlying this interaction.
我们报告了一例来自厄瓜多尔西北部乔科地区卡南德自然保护区的箭毒蛙蝇蛆病病例。通过DNA条形码和形态学特征，我们确定病原体为麻蝇科肉蝇的幼虫。这是厄瓜多尔无尾目动物蝇蛆病的首次记录，也是新热带界箭毒蛙科的第二次记录。这一观察结果可能构成一种兼性寄生的情况，即幼虫被放置在青蛙的伤口中，但需要进一步研究以了解这种相互作用背后的生物学机制。
