Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Argentina: First record of infection in Hypsiboas cordobae and Odontophrynus occidentalis tadpoles, in San Luis province, Argentina

GUTIERREZ F.R.; ARELLANO M.L.; MORENO L.E.; NATALE G.S.

HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW

SSAR

Año: 2010 vol. 34 p. 323 - 325

0018-084X

An estimated 43.2% of global amphibians have experienced some reduction in population size (Stuart et al. 2004), with some losses explained by the emerging infectious disease chytridiomycosis caused by the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) (Berger et al. 1998; Daszak et al. 1999; Longcore et al. 1999). In Argentina, Bd infection was first reported in 2002 in the Spotted Thin-toed Frog Leptodactylus ocellatus (Herrera et al. 2005). Since then, there have been additional detections records in Atelognathus patagonicus, Elachistocleis bicolor, Leptodatylus gracilis, Telmatobius atacamensis, and Telmatobius pisanoi (Barrionuevo and Mangione 2006; Fox et al. 2006; Ghirardi et al. 2009; Arellano et al. 2009) in several locations in the country. Here we report for the first occurrence of Bd in Argentinean tadpoles of two native anuran species, Hypsiboas cordobae and Odontophrynus occidentalis, in Luján, San Luis province, Argentina.