Helminth parasites of the Balkan green lizard, Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga 1886, from Bursa, Turkey

Authors

HİKMET SAMİ YILDIRIMHAN
CHARLES ROBERT BURSEY
FAYIK NACİ ALTUNEL

Abstract

Thirty-eight Balkan green lizards, Lacerta trilineata, from Turkey were examined for helminths. Three species of Digenea, Plagiorchis elegans, Pleurogenoides medians, Brachylaemus sp. (metacercaria); 2 species of Cestoda, Oochoristica tuberculata and Mesocestoides sp. (tetrathyridium); and 6 species of Nematoda, Abbreviata abbreviata, Ascarops strongylina (larva in cysts), Falcaustra armenica, Oswaldocruzia filiformis, Skrjabinelazia hoffmanni, Skrjabinodon medinae, were found. Lacerta trilineata represents a new host record for each of the parasite species; Plagiorchis elegans, Brachylaemus sp., Oochoristica tuberculata, Mesocestoides sp., Abbreviata abbreviata, Ascarops strongylina (larva), Falcaustra armenica Skrjabinelazia hoffmanni, and Skrjabinodon medinae are reported from Turkey for the first time.

DOI

10.3906/zoo-0910-1

Keywords

Digenea, Cestoda, Nematoda, Balkan green lizard, Lacerta trilineata, Turkey

First Page

519

Last Page

535

Recommended Citation

YILDIRIMHAN, H. S, BURSEY, C. R, & ALTUNEL, F. N (2011). Helminth parasites of the Balkan green lizard, Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga 1886, from Bursa, Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 35 (4): 519-535. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-0910-1