Pentastomids from African Reptiles and Mammals and from Reptiles of Florida Island, British Solomon Islands (South Pacific)

A revision of the genus Sebekia Sambon, 1922 (Pentastomida) from crocodilians with descriptions of five new species

“…For example, all four species of Sambonia are parasitic in monitor lizards and, although body shape displays pronounced interspecific differences, both sexes of each species possess large, pointed, spiky extensions of the fulcrum while overlie the posterior hooks (Noc & Giglioli, 1922;Self & Kuntz, 1957, 1966Fain & Mortelmans, 1960). The genus Parasambonia…”

A description of a new species of Raillietiella (Pentastomida: Cephalobaenida) from Egyptian lizards with a reassessment of the taxonomic status of Raillietiella geckonis (Diesing, 1850) Sambon, 1910 and Raillietiella affinis Bovien, 1927

“…Self s collection of slide-mounted and alcohol preserved specimens from Egyptian desert lizards which were identified as R. affinis by Self & Kuntz (1957). Most instars, from infective larva to adult, were represented.…”

“…The parasites were tentatively identified as R. afjinis, a diagnosis based on Boviens' (1927) type description of a species taken from the lungs of a Javanese gecko Gekko gecko (= Gecko verticillatus). Some of the agamid lizards, all Agama stellio, yielded pentastomids which were identified by Self & Kuntz (1957) as R. gehyrae, a species again first described by Bovien (1927) from another Javanese gecko, Gehyra mutilata.…”

“…According to the literature, R. ajjinis enjoys an exceptionally wide distribution; as already stated it occurs in Egypt and Java, but it has also been recorded from a gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris, in the British Solomon Islands (Self & Kuntz, 1957), in an Indian gecko, Hemidactylus leschenaulti (see Haffner, 1964, 197 1) and in a Nigerian house gecko, Hemidactylus brookii (see Awachie, 1974) (Table I). Hett (1934) considered R. affinis to be synonymous with R. indica, an immature Raillietiella described by Gedoelst (1921) from an Indian toad, Sujo melanostictus, and Self (1969) was unable to establish real differences, even between types, of several closely related species of Raillietiella from lizards: he considered five such species in all, including the type of R. affinis, and grouped them all as R. geckonis (Diesing, 1850) Sambon, 19 10, the first of the group to be formally described.…”

“…It should be readily apparent from the foregoing review that a good deal of confusion surrounds R. ajjinis. Accordingly we re-examined Bovien's type material, some additional material from Gekko gecko taken in Java and all of the specimens, tentatively identified as R. affinis by Self & Kuntz (1957) from Egyptian lizards. Not surprisingly, we describe a new species.…”