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Physalopteroides Wu & Liu 1940
- 1. Department of Biology, Whittier College, Whittier, CA, USA;
- 2. Department of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Campus, Sharon, PA, USA;
- 3. Department of Biology, LaSierra University, Riverside, CA, USA
Description
Species of Physalopteroides
are common in the Southern Hemisphere and are known from Africa, South America, Australia, South America and also Cuba (Baker 1987). Physalopteroides sp. in C. peninsularis is a new host record.
Physalopteridae gen. sp. include three subfamilies which occur in the stomachs of reptiles, birds and mammals, where they firmly attach to the gastric mucosa; only species in the Physalopterinae have been studied (Chabaud 1975). Encysted physalopterid larvae are common in the digestive tracts of reptiles (Jones 1995). As development to the adult does not occur, infected reptiles serve as paratenic (transport) hosts. Physalopteridae in C. limi and C. nuicamensis are new host records.
Notes
Published as part of Goldberg, Stephen R., Bursey, Charles R. & Grismer, L. Lee, 2015, Gastrointestinal helminths of nine species of Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia, one species from Cambodia and Thailand and two species from Vietnam, pp. 2683-2691 in Journal of Natural History 49 (43) on page 2688, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1021877, http://zenodo.org/record/4000965
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Physalopteridae
- Genus
- Physalopteroides
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Spirurida
- Phylum
- Nematoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Wu & Liu
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Physalopteroides Wu, 1940 sec. Goldberg, Bursey & Grismer, 2015
References
- Baker MR. 1987. Synopsis of the Nematoda parasitic in amphibians and reptiles. Mem Univ Newfoundland Occas Pap Biol. 11: 1 - 325.
- Chabaud AG. 1975. No. 3. Keys to the genera of the order Spirurida. Part 1. Camallanoidea, Dracunculoidea, Gnathostomatoidea, Physalopteroidea, Rictularioidea and Thelazioidea. In: Anderson RC, Chabaud AG, Willmott S, editors. CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau, UK; p. 1 - 27.
- Jones HI. 1995. Pathology associated with physalopterid larvae (Nematoda: Spirurida) in the gastric tissues of Australian reptiles. J Wild Dis. 31: 299 - 306.