Occurrence of cloacal prolapse in wild hylids in the Wet Tropics, Australia.
The idiopathic syndrome of cloacal prolapse was observed in the frog Litoria rheocola at 2 sites in the Wet Tropics of Australia; 1 of 365 individuals (0.3%) at Tully Gorge National Park and 5 of 92 individuals (5.4%) at Murray Upper National Park. The condition appeared to have resolved spontaneously with no clinical complications in 2 individuals at successive captures 14 and 155 d later. It was not observed in the sympatric frogs L. genimaculata (n = 206), L. nannotis (n = 357) or Nyctimystes dayi (n = 304) at either location. The underlying cause was not conclusively determined.
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School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia. andrea.phillott@jcu.edu.au
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D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000473:pathology*; D000818:Animals; D001001:Anura / Q000502:physiology*; D001315:Australia; D002988:Cloaca / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011391:Prolapse; D014329:Tropical Climate