Parasites in wildlife tend to be poorly studied in spite of the ecological roles they play, and even basic information such as the geographic distribution of the parasites and the hosts they infect or infest are not well known. For parasites that live within the host, part of the reason for this...

Forty-four Kiricephalus pattoni (Stephens, 1908) nymphs were recorded as subcutaneous lumps in 2 lizard and 2 snake species, collected from the wild in southwestern Taiwan. The number of nymphs collected from under the epidermis of each animal ranged in the snakes from 1 to 22, whereas in lizards...

Eight robust ctenotus individuals, Ctenotus robustus Storr, 1970, and 8 copper-tailed skinks, Ctenotus taeniolatus (White, 1790), from Australia were examined for helminths. Only Nematoda were found. Ctenotus robustus contained Skrjabinodon piankai. Ctenotus taeniolatus contained Abbreviata sp....

Information on the recent herpetological and related parasitological collections are very rarely available for Afghanistan. We examined two species of the family Agamidae, Laudakia nuristanica and Paralaudakia caucasia for the presence of the intestinal helminth fauna. Overall, we examined 13...

A sample of 128 individuals of the slender-toed geckos Nactus spp. from six islands of Papua New Guinea (Bougainville, Fergusson, Misima, New Britain, Rossel, Sudest) was examined for gastrointestinal helminths. Found were one species of Digenea, Mesocoelium brevicaecum; one species of Cestoda, ...

Reproductive cycle studies are essential because the reproductive biology of a species is a crucial aspect of its natural history. In lizards, stored lipids often provide the energy required for reproduction, and the liver usually plays a vital part in lipid metabolism and storage, so the...

We examined specimens of Anolis sagrei, Eutropis longicaudata, Eutropis multifasciata, Japalura polygonata xanthostoma, Japalura swinhonis, Plestiodon elegans, and Sphenomorphus indicus that we collected opportunistically from Taiwan for endoparasites. We recorded parasites in 52 of the 91 lizards...

The gastrointestinal helminths from 5 species of lizards from Baja California del Sur were examined: Bipes biporus (Bipedidae), Callisaurus draconoides, Uta stansburiana (Phrynosomatidae), Aspidoscelis hyperythrus, and Aspidoscelis maximus (Teiidae). The helminth community of lizards from Baja...

This article reports on the identification of helminths in 11 Draco lizards from Peninsular Malaysia (one D. abbreviatus, 2 D. blanfordii, 2 D. formosus, 3 D. sumatranus, and 3 D. taeniopterus) and in 5 D. maculatus lizards from Cambodia. The following are the helminths species identified: ...

Twenty-eight representatives of the scincid lizard Lobulia brongersmai from Papua New Guinea were examined for gastrointestinal helminths. One species of Digenea, Saurokoilophilia kinsellai, and two species of Nematoda, Parapharyngodon maplestoni and Skrjabinodon sheai, were found. Skrjabinodon...