INTESTINAL PARASITISM OF SOME MID-WESTERN SALAMANDERS

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In this study several genera of salamanders collected from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri were examined to determine the incidence and species of endoparasites. Acknowledgment.-The author is indebted to Miss Mary E. Larson, Department of Zoology, University of Kansas, for her guidance and helpful suggestions; to Professor A. C. Walton, Knox College, for identification of the nematodes from Cryptobranchus bishopi; and to Mr. Harold A. Dundee, formerly a graduate student at the University of Kansas, who collected and identified the salamanders used in this project.Â