A contribution to the nematode fauna of two agamid lizards from Afghanistan

A contribution to the nematode fauna of two agamid lizards from Afghanistan

Information on the recent herpetological and related parasitological collections are very rarely available for Afghanistan. We examined two species of the family Agamidae, and for the presence of the intestinal helminth fauna. Overall, we examined 13 specimens of these lizards and found three specie...

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Veröffentlicht in:Helminthologia 2021-03, Vol.58 (1), p.115-118
Hauptverfasser: Jablonski, D., Bursey, C. R., Basit, A., Farooqi, J., Masroor, R., Goldberg, S. R.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Agamidae
Central Asia
Collections
endoparasites
Fauna
first records
Intestine
Lizards
Nematodes
New records
Palearctic
rare collection
Reptiles & amphibians
Research Note
Species
Zoology
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Zusammenfassung:Information on the recent herpetological and related parasitological collections are very rarely available for Afghanistan. We examined two species of the family Agamidae, and for the presence of the intestinal helminth fauna. Overall, we examined 13 specimens of these lizards and found three species of helminths ( , , . ) in a single specimen of . and four species ( . , . , . , . ) in three specimens of . . Here in, we present the first report on the helminth fauna from . , record a new helminth host for . and three new country records for the helminth fauna of Afghanistan.
ISSN:0440-6605
1336-9083
1336-9083
DOI:10.2478/helm-2021-0006