Helminth parasites of the ocellated skink, chalcides ocellatus (forskal, 1775) (scincidae) from Turkey
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2014-07
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Yıldırımhan, Hikmet Sami
Bursey, Charles Robert
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Helminthological Soc Washington
Abstract
Forty-five ocellated bronze skinks, Chalcides ocellatus (17 males, 26 females, and 2 juveniles), from eight localities in the Mediterranean Region of Turkey were examined for helminths. Forty-four hosts were infected with 1 or more species of helminth. One species of Digenea, Brachylaima sp. (metacercaria), 1 species of Cestoda, Oochoristica tuberculata, and 6 species of Nematoda, Parapharyngodon bulbosus, Pharyngodon inermicauda, Pharyngodon mamillatus, Skrjabinodon aegyptiacus, Spinicauda sonsinoi, and Moaciria icosiensis, were found. Chalcides ocellatus represents a new host record for Brachylaima sp. and Turkey is a new locality record for P. bulbosus, Ph. inermicauda, Ph. mamillatus, S. aegyptiacus, Sp. sonsinoi, and M. icosiensis.
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Cestoda, Turkey, Chalcides ocellatus, Digenea, Nematoda, Blanus-strauchi bedriaga, Worm lizard, Egypt, Pharyngodonidae, Infracommunities, Squamata, Lacertidae, Endoparasites, Sauria, Parasitology, Zoology, Sauria
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İncedoǧan, S. vd. (2014). "Helminth parasites of the ocellated skink, chalcides ocellatus (forskal, 1775) (scincidae) from Turkey". Comparative Parasitology, 81(2), 260-269.