Helminths infecting Mabuya dorsivittata (Lacertilia, Scincidae) from a high-altitude habitat in Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro State, Southeastern Brazil

Abstract

We analysed the helminth fauna associated with the lizard Mabuya dorsivittata (Scincidae) from a high-altitude area in Itatiaia National Park, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Of the 16 lizards examined, 12 (75%) were infected by at least one helminth. Only two helminth species were found: Physaloptera retusa and Skrjabinodon spinosulus (Nematoda), the former with a prevalence of 68.8% and a mean infection intensity of 3.6 +/- 2.8 and the latter with a prevalence of 56.3% and a mean infection intensity of 2.6 +/- 2.6. The helminth fauna of the studied population of Mabuya dorsivittata was considerably poorer than those of other previously studied populations of congeners.

Diet and helminths of Enyalius brasiliensis (Lacertilia, Iguania, Leiosauridae) in an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in southeastern Brazil

“…Species of Physaloptera may occur with high prevalence (over 50%) in some populations of South American lizards of different genera and families (e.g. Vrcibradic et al, 2000, Fontes et al, 2003, Rocha et al, 2003, Bursey and Goldberg 2004. The low prevalence (under 15%) observed in the present study and in that of Vrcibradic et al (2007) suggest that lizards of the genus Enyalius are not the preferred hosts of Physaloptera spp.…”

Helminths infecting the lizard Enyalius bilineatus (Iguanidae; Leiosaurinae) from an Atlantic Rainforest area in Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil

“…Van Sluys et al, 1994;Ribas et al, 1998;Vrcibradic et al, 2000Vrcibradic et al, , 2002Fontes et al, 2003;Rocha et al, 2003;Dias et al, 2005), with studies on forest species being still scarce Bursey et al, 2005a, b). Some studies on lizard parasites have shown that the rates of parasitism and/or some parameters of the parasite communities may vary between host species/populations living in forested (i.e.…”

A helminthological research on three Lacertid lizards species:Acanthodactylus harranensisBaranetal, 2005,Acanthodactylus schreiberiBoulenger, 1878, andMesalina brevirostrisBlanford, 1874, collected from South and South-eastern regions of Turkey

“…Inglis (1968) revised Parathelandros Diesing, 1861, retaining the genus for para sites of Australian amphibians and erecting Skrjabinodon as a new genus for parasites of reptiles (Bursey & Goldberg, 1999). There are several reptile family members infected by different Skrjabinodon species were recorded by various researchers: Gekkonidae (Moravec & Baruš, 1990;Bursey & Goldberg, 1999;Hering-Hagenbeck et al, 2002;Matsuo & Oku, 2002;Jones, 2013;Bursey & Brooks, 2010), Agamidae (Rezazadeh et al, 2012), Corytophanidae (Bursey & Brooks, 2010), Iguanidae (Bundy et al, 1987;Bursey & Brooks, 2010;Bursey & Goldberg, 2007), Phrynosomatidae (Bursey & Brooks, 2010), Polychrotidae (Bursey & Brooks, 2010), Gymnophthalmidae (Bursey & Goldberg, 2011b), Lacertidae (Roca & Ferragut, 1989;Hornero & Roca, 1992;Vicente et al, 2000;Yıldırım-han et al, 2011), Anguidae , Teiidae (Bursey & Brooks, 2010), and Scincidae (Vicente et al, 2000;Hering-Hagenbeck et al, 2002;Vicente et al, 2002;Rocha et al, 2003;Bursey et al, 2008;Incedogan et al, 2014). In this study, we observed for the fi rst time Skrjabinodon sp.…”