LARVAL ASCAROPS SP (NEMATODA, SPIRURIDA) IN INTRODUCED MEDITERRANEAN GECKOS, HEMIDACTYLUS-TURCICUS (SAURIA, GEKKONIDAE), FROM TEXAS

Authors
MCALLISTER CT GOLDBERG SR BURSEY CR FREED PS HOLSHUH HJ
Citation
Ct. Mcallister et al., LARVAL ASCAROPS SP (NEMATODA, SPIRURIDA) IN INTRODUCED MEDITERRANEAN GECKOS, HEMIDACTYLUS-TURCICUS (SAURIA, GEKKONIDAE), FROM TEXAS, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 60(2), 1993, pp. 280-282
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington → ACNP
ISSN journal
1049233X
Volume
60
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
280 - 282
Database
ISI
SICI code
1049-233X(1993)60:2<280:LAS(SI>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
Third-stage larval spirurid nematodes, Ascarops sp., were found encyst ed in the stomach, pancreas, small intestine, and liver of 9 of 98 (9% ) Mediterranean geckos, Hemidactylus turcicus, from Houston, Harris Co unty, Texas. Histopathological effects of the parasite on tissues of H . turcicus were studied. The Mediterranean gecko represents a new host and the third saurian species reported to be infected by this nematod e.