Helminth parasites of the Turkish smooth newt, lissotriton schmidtleri (raxworthy, 1988) and balkan crested newt, triturus ivanbureschi arntzen et wielstra, 2013 from İzmir, Turkey

Abstract

May 23, We studied the helminths parasitizing the individuals of the Turkish smooth newt, Lissotriton schmidtleri (n = 60) and the Balkan crested newt, Triturus ivanbureschi (n = 40) collected from two localities in Izmir, Turkey. Of the 100 newts, 20 (20%) were infected. We detected only one species of parasites, Megalobatrachonema terdentatum (Nematoda: Kathlaniidae), with a prevalence of 0.13% and 0.30% in L. schmidtleri and T. ivanbureschi, respec-tively. Triturus ivanbureschi represents a new host record for M. terdentatum. Also we present new locality re-cords for both hosts and helminth species.