Blood parasites of some pacific northwest amphibians.

Abstract

Studies on amphibian haematozoa have been reported from other sections of the United States and Canada (eg., Roudabush and Coatney, 1937, Trans. Am. Miscroscop. Soc. 56: 291-7; Fantham, Porter and Richardson, 1942, Parasitol. 34: 199-226). Reports on the blood parasites of amphibians in the Pacific Northwest is apparently limited to those of Lehmann (1954, J. Parasitol. 40: 656-9). All of his collections in Oregon were restricted to the Willamette Valley.