Helminths infecting Dryadosaura nordestina (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Atlantic Forest, northeastern Brazil
| Autor: | Adonias Aphoena Martins Teixeira, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, Lissa Dellefrate Franzini, Diêgo Alves Teles, S. V. Brito, Daniel Oliveira Santana, Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida, Reinaldo José da Silva, J A Araujo-Filho |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal Do Maranhaõ, Universidade Regional Do Cariri-URCA |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Squamata Fauna nematode parasitism 010607 zoology Parasitism Zoology 01 natural sciences trematode 03 medical and health sciences Genus biology.animal Physaloptera Helminths lcsh:Agriculture (General) Gymnophthalmidae lcsh:R5-920 biology Lizard 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification lcsh:S1-972 Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology lcsh:Medicine (General) lizard Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Scopus Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP Helminthologia Helminthologia, Vol 55, Iss 4, Pp 286-291 (2018) |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-06T15:58:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2018-01-01 We analyzed the patterns of infection by helminths in populations of the Gymnophthalmidae lizard Dryadosaura nordestina from three Atlantic Forest fragments in Northeast Brazil. Prevalence and mean intensity of infection by location showed the following results: ARIE Mata de Goiamunduba (60.8 % and 10.4 ± 8), RPPN Engenho Gargaú (83.3 % and 20.8 ± 19.7) and Benjamim Maranhaõ Botanical Garden (70.4 % and 7.78 ± 5.8). We provide the first records of helminth infection for the lizard D. nordestina, in which three species of nematodes, Aplectana sp., Cosmocerca sp. and Physaloptera lutzi and one trematode Haplometroides odhneri were recovered. Trematodes of the genus Haplometroides were previously known as parasites only in snake and amphisbaenian hosts in South America. Now, our study provides the first record of a species belonging to this genus parasitizing lizards. In conclusion, our study shows that D. nordestina have a depleted helminth fauna (three species at maximum), similar to other studies with lizards of this family in Brazil and that its parasite abundance is related to host snout-vent length, but not to the sex. Programa de Pós-Graduacaõ em Ciências Biológicas (Zoologia) Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia-DSe Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza-CCEN Universidade Federal da Paraíba-UFPB Cidade Universitária Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP Campus Botucatu Instituto de Biociências Departamento de Parasitologia Centro de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais Universidade Federal Do Maranhaõ Departamento de Ciências Biológicas Universidade Regional Do Cariri-URCA Campus Pimenta, Rua Cel. Antônio Luiz 1161 Universidade Estadual Paulista-UNESP Campus Botucatu Instituto de Biociências Departamento de Parasitologia |
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