Endoparasites of the Golden Grass Skink Heremites auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Turkey

Hikmet Sami Yildirimhan; Nurhan Sümer; Charles R. Bursey; Mehmet Zülfü Yildiz; Buket Eylek; Muhammad Asad Kamran; Bahadir Akman

doi:10.1654/1525-2647-88.1.67

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Hikmet Sami Yildirimhan,^1,* Nurhan Sümer,¹ Charles R. Bursey,² Mehmet Zülfü Yildiz,³ Buket Eylek,¹ Muhammad Asad Kamran,¹ Bahadir Akman⁴

¹Department of Biology, Science and Literature Faculty, Uludag University, 16059 Bursa, Turkey (e-mail: yhikmet@uludag.edu.tr; nsumer@uludag.edu.tr)
²Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Campus, Sharon, Pennsylvania 16146, U.S.A. (e-mail: cxb13@psu.edu)
³Department of Biology, Science and Literature Faculty, Adıyaman University, 02040 Adıyaman, Turkey (e-mail: yildizzulfu@yahoo.com)
⁴Hunting and Wildlife Program, Department of Forestry, Vocational School of Technical Sciences, Iğdır University, 76000 Iğdır, Turkey (e-mail: bahadirakm@hotmail.com)

^*Corresponding author.

Abstract

We examined 35 golden grass skinks Heremites auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Scincidae), obtained from various locations in Turkey, for helminth parasites. We found 1 species of Cestoda, Mesocestoides sp., and 7 species of Nematoda: Parapharyngodon dogieli, Parapharyngodon lilfordi, Parapharyngodon psammodromi, Pharyngodon mamillatus, Spauligodon eremiasi, Spauligodon sp., and Thubunaea baylisi.

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Hikmet Sami Yildirimhan, Nurhan Sümer, Charles R. Bursey, Mehmet Zülfü Yildiz, Buket Eylek, Muhammad Asad Kamran, and Bahadir Akman "Endoparasites of the Golden Grass Skink Heremites auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Turkey," Comparative Parasitology 88(1), 67-69, (3 May 2021). https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-88.1.67

Published: 3 May 2021

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