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During 1992, 83 specimens of North American Amphibia from Algonquin Park and Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and from El Paso County, Texas USA, comprising 14 species in seven families, were checked for opalinids in the cloaca.Protoopalina allisteri n. sp. is described from oneGastrophryne carolinensis (Microhylidae) from Arkansas andP. mitotica was found in one of fourScaphiopus multiplicatus (Pelobatidae) from Texas. The North American species ofProtoopalina are reviewed.Zelleriella ovoidea (Metcalf, 1923) is proposed as a new combination forP. ovoidea.
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Delvinquier, B.L.J., Desser, S.S. & Johnson, J. Opalinidae (Sarcomastigophora) in North American Amphibia. GenusProtoopalina Metcalf, 1918. Syst Parasitol 32, 141–147 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00009513
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