Ectoparasites Associated with Neotropical Turtles of the Genus Callopsis (Testudines, Emydidae, Batagurinae)

Ernst, Carl H.; Ernst, Evelyn M.

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“…After comparing our five specimens to P. gibbus recently collected along the Rio Santiago in Amazonas (4), and along the Rio Tambopata in Madre ' The locality record for Rhinoclemmys punctularia (Ernst, 1981: 276 Ernst (1978) and listed by Pritchard and Trebbau (1984), but omitted from Ernst's map (1981b). de Dios (1), Peru, and from the Rio Tapajós, Para, Brazil (1), we have concluded that they are not specifically distinct, since size, proportions and coloration generally agree.…”

Section: Phrynops Gibbusmentioning

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Additions to the Reptile Fauna of Paraguay with Notes on a Small Herpetological Collection from Amambay

McDiarmid

Foster

1987

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

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Specimens in a small collections of reptiles and amphibians from Parque Nacional Cerro Cora, Departamento Amambay, Paraguay are reported. Included are the first records of Bachia bresslaui, Phrynops gibbus, and Ololygon fuscomarginata for that country. Brief notes on morphology, distribution, and natural history of species collected, are included. The systematic status of Phrynops tuberculatus vanderhaegei is evaluated.

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Section: Phrynops Gibbusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Additions to the Reptile Fauna of Paraguay with Notes on a Small Herpetological Collection from Amambay

McDiarmid

Foster

1987

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

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“…Rhinoclemmys nasuta and R. melanosterna represent new host records for A. sabanerae, adding another two species to the previously recorded five species of Rhinoclemmys [R. annulata, R. areolata, R. funerea (Cope 1876), R. pulcherrima (Gray 1856), R. punctularia (Daudin 1801)], parasitized by this tick (Ernst & Ernst 1977, Burridge 2001, Robbins et al 2001. Also, the presence of A. sabanerae in Valle del Cauca represents a new department record, south of the nearest reported locality where it was recovered from a R. annulata specimen in the Department of the Chocó (Ernst & Ernst 1977). Osorno-Mesa (1940) previously reported A. sabanerae from Colombia based on Schulze (1937); however, there was no mention of the host or a specific locality.…”

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“…The most commonly identified tick species, A. sabanerae, was collected from five species of Rhinoclemmys, including two specimens of R. annulata from Colombia. Ernst & Ernst (1977) also recovered one leech of the genus Placobdella from one specimen of R. annulata from Panama, and Oceguera-Figueroa & Pacheco-Chaves (2012) recently reported P. ringueleti parasitizing R. annulata in Costa Rica. Schmidt (1947) made note that ticks were routinely discovered on the head and neck region of Kinosternon leucostomum (Duméril & Bibron in Duméril & Duméril 1851) specimens from Panama.…”

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“…The immature stages (i.e., larvae and nymphs) have not been described for A. sabanerae (Guglielmone et al 2003); therefore we followed the practice of "identifying" the preimaginal stages by their association with adult ticks present in the turtle population (Robbins et al 2001). Robbins et al (2001) described the hypostomal dentition of nymph specimens associated with adult A. sabanerae from R. areolata (Duméril & Bibron in Duméril & Duméril 1851) in Belize, and documented a 2/2 hypostomal dentition for the nymphs, as opposed to the 3/3 dental formula they attributed to A. dissimile, which is also known to parasitize Rhinoclemmys species (Ernst & Ernst 1977). The nymphal dentition we observed varied between 2/2 and 3/3.…”

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“…Medem (1956) first reported the tick species Amblyomma crassum (Robinson 1926) parasitizing a specimen of Rhinoclemmys annulata (Gray 1860) collected in the Department of the Chocó, Colombia, and published two more accounts of the observed parasitism between A. crassum and R. annulata (Medem 1962a, b). Ernst & Ernst (1977) recorded four species of the genus Amblyomma [A. cajennense (Fabricius 1787); A. dissimile Koch, 1844;A. rotundatum Koch, 1844 andA.…”

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Turtle ectoparasites from the Pacific coastal region of Colombia

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Abstract:This study provides an update on the ectoparasites (ticks and leeches) associated with Rhinoclemmys annulata and provides new accounts on the ectoparasites associated with R. nasuta, R. melanosterna and Kinosternon leucostomum from the Pacific coast of Colombia. The presence of Amblyomma sabanerae on R. nasuta and R. melanosterna provided two new host records for the tick species. Also, the documentation of A. sabanerae from the Department of Valle del Cauca represents a new department record for the species in Colombia. Placobdella ringueleti was identified from R. nasuta and K. leucostomum, which represents a new host record for the leech species, as well as a significant extension of the known range. Resumen: Este estudio proporciona nueva información sobre ectoparásitos (garrapatas y sanguijuelas) encontrados en Rhinoclemmys annulata, y aporta nuevos registros sobre ectoparásitos asociados a R. nasuta, R. melanosterna y Kinosternon leucostomum en la costa pacífica de Colombia. La presencia de Amblyomma sabanerae en R. nasuta y R. melanosterna provee dos nuevos hospederos para esta especie de garrapata. Igualmente el reporte de A. sabanerae amplía el registro de esta especie en Colombia, al departamento del Valle del Cauca. R. nasuta y K. leucostomum, se constituyen en nuevos registros de hospederos para Placobdella ringueleti, e incrementa de manera significativa el rango de distribución geográfico conocido para esta especie de sanguijuela.

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Geometric morphometrics and anatomical network analyses reveal ecospace partitioning among geoemydid turtles from the Uinta Formation, Utah

Adrian

Smith

Hutchison

et al. 2021

The Anatomical Record

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We present new fossil records of the geoemydid turtle Bridgeremys pusilla from the Uinta Formation of Utah. Turtles are abundant throughout the unit, and known taxa are similar to those from the older strata in the Upper Green River Basin in Wyoming from the Bridger and Washakie Formations. B. pusilla is known from Bridgerian deposits but was not previously known from after the Turtle Bluff Member of the Bridger Formation. The taxon was coveal with two species of the geoemydid Echmatemys (E. callopyge and E. wyomingensis), a common genus of extinct pond turtles known primarily from lacustrine and fluvial deposits in western North America, including the Uinta Basin. In addition to previously documented morphological differences, our geometric morphometric analyses revealed significant differences in epiplastral morphology between B. pusilla and the two coeval Echmatemys species. Bridgeremys pusilla shared several morphological characters with Testudinidae. However, our anatomical network analysis suggests that the carapace of B. pusilla distributed stress forces in a manner more similar to emydids (basal and derived) than to derived testudinoids (Testudinidae and Emydidae), including Echmatemys species. This finding changes our understanding of the ecology of the species and sheds light onto how geoemydid turtles of the Uinta Formation may have partitioned the available ecospace. These new Uintan records extend the geographic range of B. pusilla into the Uinta Basin and stratigraphically through the top of the Uinta Formation, extending the temporal range of the taxon by more than 4 million years through the Uintan North American Land Mammal Age to the base of the Duchesne River Formation.

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Ectoparasites Associated with Neotropical Turtles of the Genus Callopsis (Testudines, Emydidae, Batagurinae)

Cited by 32 publications

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Additions to the Reptile Fauna of Paraguay with Notes on a Small Herpetological Collection from Amambay

Additions to the Reptile Fauna of Paraguay with Notes on a Small Herpetological Collection from Amambay

Turtle ectoparasites from the Pacific coastal region of Colombia

Geometric morphometrics and anatomical network analyses reveal ecospace partitioning among geoemydid turtles from the Uinta Formation, Utah

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