Publication: Helminth parasites of the mediterranean chameleon chamaeleo chamaeleon (linnaeus, 1758) (reptilia: Chamaeleonidae) from Turkey
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2020-09-01
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Yılmaz, Can
Yıldırım, Elif
Candan, Kamil
Kumluta, Yusuf
Ilgaz, Cetin
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Inst Zoology, Bas
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The hehninth fauna of thirty nine Mediterranean Chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Linnaeus, 1758) (22 male male, 17 female female) was examined. Specimens collected from Adana, Hatay, Antalya, Aydin, Gaziantep, Mugla and Izmir provinces in Turkey. The trematodes recovered included Plagiorchis elegans (Rudolphi, 1802) Braun, 1902, P. molini Lent & Freitas, 1940 and Pseudosonsinotrema chamaeleonis Dollfus, 1951. The nematode recovered was Physaloptera sp. Turkey is a new geographical record for Pseudosonsinotrema chamaeleonis. C. chamaeleon represents a new host record for P. elegans, P. molini and Physaloptera sp.
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Nematoda physalopteridae, Digenea-pleurogenidae, Sauria, Lizard, Lacertidae, Squamata, Bursa, Checklist, Trematode, Hellmich, Chamaeleo chamaeleon, Helminth, Trematoda, Nematoda, Turkey, Science & technology, Life sciences & biomedicine, Zoology
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