A KEY TO SOME PENTASTOME, NEMATODE AND TREMATODE PARASITES OF THE AMERICAN ALLIGATOR

摘要

Seventy-five American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) were obtained from southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. Necropsy revealed the presence of one species of pentastome (Sebekia mississippiensis), three species of nematodes (Dujardinascaris waltoni, Brevimulticaecum baylisi, Brevimulticaecum tenuicolle) and eight species of trematodes (Acanthostomum coronarium, Acanthostomum loossi, Acanthostomum pavidum, Archaeodiplostomum acetabulata, Crocodilicola pseudostoma, Dracovermis occidentalis, Polycotyle ornata and Pseudocrocodilicola georgiana).