Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
Comparative Parasitology 67(1) 2000 - Peru State College
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Table 1. Extended.<br />
Ctenophorus reticulatus<br />
% x ± SD r<br />
60* 7.0 ± 3.5 5-11<br />
* New host record.<br />
Ctenophorus<br />
scutulatus<br />
% x ± SD r<br />
4.1 ±4.1 1-13<br />
1.1 ± 0.4 1-2<br />
1.0 —<br />
1942) (USNPC 88547), and Wanaristrongylus<br />
ctenoti Jones, 1987 (USNPC 88553), were<br />
found. Larvae of Abbreviata sp. (USNPC 88554,<br />
88558, 88565) were also present. All of these<br />
helminths were found in the lumen of the intestines,<br />
with the exception of larval Abbreviata sp.<br />
which were found in cysts in the intestinal wall.<br />
No cystacanths, pleurocercoids, or tetrathyridia<br />
were found in the body cavity or attached to the<br />
viscera.<br />
Prevalences, mean intensity ± SD, and range<br />
are presented in Table 1. None of the helminths<br />
found in this study is host specific. Recorded<br />
helminths of agamid lizards from Australia are<br />
listed in Table 2. Of these, Pseudothamugadia<br />
physignathi Lopez-Neyra, 1956, Oswaldofilaria<br />
innisfailensis (Mackerras, 1962), Oswaldofilaria<br />
pflugfelderi (Frank, 1964) and Oswaldofilaria<br />
samfordensis Manzanell, 1982, all filarioids,<br />
have been found to infect a single host species<br />
and, surprisingly, the same host species, Physignathus<br />
lesueurii (Gray, 1831) (the eastern water<br />
dragon). Abbreviata anomala, Abbreviata pilbarensis<br />
Jones, 1986, Oswaldofilaria chlamydosauri<br />
(Breinl, 1913), 5. gallardi, Strongyluris<br />
paronai (Stossich, 1902), and Wanaristrongylus<br />
pogonae Jones, 1987 are known only from<br />
agamid hosts. The remaining helminths have<br />
been reported from agarnids as well as other lizard<br />
families: O. piankai from Gekkonidae; Abbreviata<br />
antarctica (Linstow, 1899), Scincidae,<br />
Varanidae; Abbreviata confusa (Johnston and<br />
Mawson, 1942), Varanidae, as well as several<br />
Host<br />
GOLDBERG ET AL.—RESEARCH NOTES 111<br />
Lophognathus<br />
longirostris<br />
% x ± SD r<br />
10* 1.0<br />
10 1.0<br />
Pogona minor<br />
% x ± SD r<br />
12 2.0 ± 1.0<br />
28 6.7 ± 5.6<br />
20* 1.2 ± 0.5<br />
1-3<br />
1-13<br />
1-2<br />
snake species; Abbreviata tumidocapitis Jones,<br />
1983, Gekkonidae, Varanidae; K. chrysocatnpa,<br />
Scincidae; K. lesueurii, Scincidae; M. brygooi,<br />
Scincidae, Varanidae; P. fitzroyi, Scincidae; Parapharyngodon<br />
kartana (Johnston and Mawson,<br />
1941), Gekkonidae, Scincidae; Physalopteroides<br />
filicauda Jones, 1985, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae,<br />
Scincidae, Varanidae; Pseudorictularia dipsarilis<br />
(Irwin-Smith, 1922), Scincidae; S. goldmanae,<br />
Gekkonidae, Scincidae, Varanidae; W.<br />
ctenoti, Gekkonidae, Scincidae, Varanidae.<br />
Physalopterid larvae are widely distributed in<br />
Australia and have been reported from agamid,<br />
gekkonid, scincid, and varanid lizards as well as<br />
several species of snakes (Jones, 1995b). This is<br />
the first report of larvae of Abbreviata sp. from<br />
C. isolepis and C. scutulatus; however, Jones<br />
(1995b) reported physalopteran larvae from C.<br />
isolepis. Currently, species of Physaloptera are<br />
not known to occur in Australian reptiles. Physaloptera<br />
gallardi Johnston and Mawson, 1942,<br />
from Pogona barbata (Cuvier, 1829) (the bearded<br />
dragon) was reassigned to Skrjabinoptera by<br />
Chabaud (1956), and Physaloptera bancrofti Irwin-Smith,<br />
1922 from Phyllurus platurus<br />
(White, 1790) (the southern leaf-tailed gecko)<br />
was reassigned to Abbreviata by Schuh; (1927).<br />
Physalopterid larvae found in Australian lizards<br />
are most likely species of either Abbreviata or<br />
Skrjabinoptera.<br />
The data presented here suggest that Australian<br />
agamid lizards are infected by helminth<br />
generalists. Bush et al. (1997) presented a hier-<br />
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