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

Authors

HİKMET SAMİ YILDIRIMHAN
CHARLES ROBERT BURSEY
FAYIK NACİ ALTUNEL

DOI

10.3906/zoo-0910-1

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.

Keywords

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

First Page

519

Last Page

535

Recommended Citation

YILDIRIMHAN, HİKMET SAMİ; BURSEY, CHARLES ROBERT; and ALTUNEL, FAYIK NACİ (2011) "Helminth parasites of the Balkan green lizard, Lacerta trilineata Bedriaga 1886, from Bursa, Turkey," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 35: No. 4, Article 7. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-0910-1
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol35/iss4/7