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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 />

Copyright © 2011, The Helminthological Society of Washington

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