A new species of <i>Raillietiella</i>, a pentastomid from the Bearded Lizard, <i>Amphibolurus barbatus</i> (Cuv.)

Mahon, June

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1954.tb07792.x

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“…Originally reported from North American colubrid snakes (Heymons, 1935;Heymons & Vitzthum, 1935), the type specimens of R. bicaudata include two adult males collected from two captive snakes housed at the Berlin Aquarium in Germany (Christoffersen & De Assis, 2013). These specimens cannot be distinguished from R. orientalis or R. furcocercum (a species of Central and South American snakes) based on morphological features (J. M. Kinsella, personal observation;Mahon, 1954).…”

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Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons

Miller

Kinsella²,

Snow

et al. 2017

Ecology and Evolution

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Identification of the origin of parasites of nonindigenous species (NIS) can be complex. NIS may introduce parasites from their native range and acquire parasites from within their invaded range. Determination of whether parasites are non‐native or native can be complicated when parasite genera occur within both the NIS’ native range and its introduced range. We explored potential for spillover and spillback of lung parasites infecting Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus) in their invasive range (Florida). We collected 498 indigenous snakes of 26 species and 805 Burmese pythons during 2004–2016 and examined them for lung parasites. We used morphology to identify three genera of pentastome parasites, Raillietiella, a cosmopolitan form, and Porocephalus and Kiricephalus, both New World forms. We sequenced these parasites at one mitochondrial and one nuclear locus and showed that each genus is represented by a single species, R. orientalis, P. crotali, and K. coarctatus. Pythons are host to R. orientalis and P. crotali, but not K. coarctatus; native snakes are host to all three species. Sequence data show that pythons introduced R. orientalis to North America, where this parasite now infects native snakes. Additionally, our data suggest that pythons are competent hosts to P. crotali, a widespread parasite native to North and South America that was previously hypothesized to infect only viperid snakes. Our results indicate invasive Burmese pythons have affected parasite‐host dynamics of native snakes in ways that are consistent with parasite spillover and demonstrate the potential for indirect effects during invasions. Additionally, we show that pythons have acquired a parasite native to their introduced range, which is the initial condition necessary for parasite spillback.

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Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons

Miller

Kinsella²,

Snow

et al. 2017

Ecology and Evolution

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A revision of the taxonomy of the blunt-hooked Raillietiella, pentastomid parasites of African, South-East-Asian and Indonesian lizards, with a description of a new species

Ali¹,

Riley²,

Self³

1981

Systematic Parasitology

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Amphibians as definitive hosts for pentastomids: Raillietiella bufonis n.sp. from Bufo lemur in Puerto Rico and a reassessment of Raillietiella indica Gedoelst, 1921

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A new species of a cephalobaenid pentastomid infecting the lungs of a toad, Bufo lemur, from Puerto Rico is described. The single infection comprises all stages from infective larvae to mature males and females and therefore we consider the toad to be a definitive host. We reassess the evidence concerning Raillietiella indica Gedoelst, 1921, another raillietiellid from the lungs of an Indian toad, B. melanostictus which, hitherto, has been considered by most authors an immature stage from an intermediate host. It now appears that the type specimen was probably a gravid female and that R. indica is a valid species which also matures in a toad. Thus amphibians are established as a new class of definitive hosts for pentastomids.

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A new species of Raillietiella, a pentastomid from the Bearded Lizard, Amphibolurus barbatus (Cuv.)

Abstract: Summary. A new species of Raillietiella, the first to be recorded from the family Agamidae or from an Australian host, is described.

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Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons

Parasite spillover: indirect effects of invasive Burmese pythons

A revision of the taxonomy of the blunt-hooked Raillietiella, pentastomid parasites of African, South-East-Asian and Indonesian lizards, with a description of a new species

Amphibians as definitive hosts for pentastomids: Raillietiella bufonis n.sp. from Bufo lemur in Puerto Rico and a reassessment of Raillietiella indica Gedoelst, 1921

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