The Nematode Genus Abbreviata (Travassos, 1920) Schulz, 1927

Abbreviata terrapenis (Nematoda: Physalopteridae): An Accidental Parasite of the Banded Rock Rattlesnake (Crotalus lepidus klauberi)

“…Abbreviata terrapenis, originally described from the ornate box tortoise (Terrapene ornata), infects painted turtle (Chrysemys picta), snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina), Blanding's turtle (Emydoidea blandingii), Sonoran spotted whiptail (Cnemidophorus sonorae), western whiptail (Cnemidophorus tigris), and mountain spiny lizard (Sceloporus jarrovii) (Hill, 1941;Morgan, 1945;Goldberg et al, 1995Goldberg et al, , 1996Goldberg et al, , 1997. Because A. terrapenis is a heteroxenous helminth with an indirect life cycle involving an insect intermediate host (Anderson, 2000), its occurrence in insectivores, but not carnivores, might be expected.…”

Endoparasites of Eleven Species of Ranid Frogs (Anura: Ranidae) from Papua New Guinea

“…results A total of 3,644 endoparasites was recovered from 229 (80%) of 288 frogs. Of these, 2,790 (77% of total) were mature individuals representing three species of Digenea (Diplodiscus amphichrus Tubangui, 1933;Mesocoelium monas [Rudolphi, 1819] Freitas, 1957; Opisthioglyphe cophixali Moravec & Sey, 1989); 15 species of Nematoda (Abbreviata oligopapillata [Kreis, 1940] Morgan, 1945; Aplectana krausi Bursey & Goldberg, 2007; Aplectana macintoshii [Stewart, 1914] [Seurat, 1917]; and one species of Acanthocephala (Acanthocephalus bufonis [Shipley, 1903]). Also present were 854 (23% of total) juvenile endoparasites presumably incapable of completing their life cycles in frogs: one species of Cestoda (as cysticerci), two species of Nematoda (Abbreviata sp.…”

“…Abbreviata oligopapillata was originally described as Physaloptera oligopapillata by Kreis (1940) from specimens taken from the skink Sphenomorphus jobiensis collected on New Britain, Bismarck Archipelago, but was assigned to Abbreviata by Morgan (1945). Jones (1979) reported it in an elapid snake, Acanthophis antarcticus, collected on New Guinea.…”

Essai de révision des Physaloptères parasites de Reptiles

“…Plusieurs importantes révisions ont été publiées sur les Physaloptères : Seurat (1917), , Irwin-Smith (1921, 1922, Ortlepp (1922Ortlepp ( , 1937, Schulz (1927), Hill (1940) et Morgan (1942Morgan ( , 1943Morgan ( , 1945Morgan ( et 1947. Ces monographies ont été faites avec le plus grand soin et sont extrêmement précieuses, mais le groupe est telle ment riche en espèces, et les espèces sont tellement proches mor phologiquement les unes des autres, que les diagnoses restent encore souvent très difficiles.…”

“…» Les auteurs qui ont suivi, et en particulier Morgan (1945) Baylis et Daubney (1923) comme P. quadrovaria. Ces auteurs constatent en effet que la structure génitale est plus proche de celle de varani que de celle de quadrovaria ; mais la structure céphalique leur semble avoir plus de valeur, et ils constatent l'existence d'une crête denticulée qui élimine varani.…”