The alien and native pentastomids fauna of an exotic lizard population from Brazilian Northeast

Lung infection rates in two sympatric Tropiduridae lizard species by pentastomids and nematodes in northeastern Brazil

“…In the present study its prevalence of 2.5% is inferior to its reported infection levels in Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) (2.7%), Phyllopesus pollicaris (Spix, 1825) (16.6%), P. periosus Rodrigues, 1986 (66.7%), T. hispidus (11.1%) and T. semitaeniatus (13.3%) in other areas from northeastern Brazilian (Almeida et al, 2008a;2008b;Anjos et al, 2007;2008) (Table 1). Nevertheless, the prevalence of Raillietiella spp.…”

“…Nevertheless, the prevalence of Raillietiella spp. in lizards from Caatinga region (present study; Anjos et al, 2007;2008;Almeida et al, 2008a;2008b) were greater than that recorded for some lizard species in Restinga habitats (coastal sandy dune habitats) (Table 1) 1823 (3.6-9.0%, Vrcibradic et al, 2002b); the Teiidae hosts Cnemidophorus ocellifer (Spix, 1825) (2.5%, Dias et al, 2005) and C. abaetensis Dias, Rocha andVrcibradic, 2002 (6.0%, Dias et al, 2005), and the Gymnophtalmidae Micrablepharus maximiliani (Reinhardt and Luetken, 1862) (4.0%, Almeida et al, 2009). …”

“…Although most of the studies of parasitism in vertebrates are mainly concerned with economic questions , ecological studies focusing interactions between parasites and their lizard hosts have been relatively well documented in Brazil over the last two decades (Ribas et al, 1995(Ribas et al, , 1998Rocha, 1995;Vrcibradic et al, 1999;2002a, b, 2007Bursey et al, 2003;Dias et al, 2005;Anjos et al, 2005Anjos et al, , 20072008;Goldberg et al, 2006;Almeida et al, 2008aAlmeida et al, , 2008bAlmeida et al, , 2009.…”

“…Pentastomids have been relatively poorly studied in the Neotropical region, despite its importance as a parasite of vertebrate (Almeida and Christoffersen, 2002). However, the recent reports of parasite occurrence, the new species descriptions, and the information concerning new host records have added knowledge on pentastomid-lizard interactions (Vrcibradic et al, 2002a;Dias et al, 2005;Anjos et al, 2007;2008;Almeida et al, 2008a;2008b;2009). On the other hand, reports concerning lung infections by Rhabdias have been relatively less frequent -and only an infection in the lizard Enyalius bilineatus (Duméril and Bibron, 1837) (Leiosaurinae) from an area of Atlantic Rainforest in Espírito Santo state, southeastern Brazil (Vrcibradic et al, 2007) and an infection of Norops fuscoauratus (d'Orbingy, 1837) (Polychrotidae) in northern Brazil (Goldberg et al, 2006) have been previously reported.…”

New host records of Brazilian pentastomid species

“…In Brazil, the first works on these parasites were recorded in hosts from the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CHIOC), which is the principal reference collection in terms of the diversity of neotropical pentastomids (Motta, 1963a,b;Rego, 1981;1983;1984). Another collection, smaller and under construction in recent years, comprises the Zoology Laboratory of the Regional University of Cariri (LZ URCA) with a total of 67 specimens of the following species Cephalobaena tetrapoda (Heymons, 1922) (Almeida et al, 2006a, b;Almeida et al, 2008a, b;Almeida et al, 2009a, b;Anjos et al, 2007;Anjos et al, 2008;Lopes et al, 2006).…”