Comparative Parasitology of Squamate Reptiles Endemic to Scrub and Sandhills Communities of North-central Florida, U.S.A.

摘要

The comparative parasitology of endemic, primarily fossorial squamate reptiles of xeric habitats in Florida, U.S.A., is described, largely based on live-trapping studies in Ocala National Forest, Marion County, Florida, from 1992 through 1998. Nineteen new host records (*) are reported, and a new species oflsospora is described. Neoseps reynoldsi (Scincidae) is host to Eimeria egregia*, Isospora neosepsorum n, sp.*, probably 2 species of Hartmannella, Parapharyngodon ocalaensis, and Eutrombicula* sp.; Eumeces egregius onocrepis (Scincidae) is parasitized by Proteromonas lacertaeviridis*, Mono-cercomonas colubrorum*, Retortamonas saurarum, E, egregia, Hartmannella spp.*, P. ocalaensis*, and Eutrombicula* sp.; Tantilla relicta relicta (Colubridae) is host to P. lacertaeviridis*, M colubrorum*, R saurarum*, Hartmannella spp., Eimeria pleistocenensis, E,, amphorae, Eimeria sp., Isospora wilsoni, Caryospora tantillae, C. relictae, Kalicephalus inermis*, and P. ocalaensis*; Sceloporus woodi (Phrynosomatidae) is parasitized by M, colubrorum*, P lacertaeviridis, R. saurarum*, a possible Hexamastix species, and Eutrombicula* sp.; Rhineura floridana (Amphisbaenidae) is the host of Paradollfusnema telfordi. Other saurian species examined, not endemic to the sandhills community, were Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Teiidae), host to P, lacertaeviridis, M. colubrorum, R saurarum, larval Physaloptera sp., and Eutrombicula* sp., and Scincella later alls (Scincidae), parasitized by Eimeria scincellae, Hartmannella spp.*, and a cestode, Bitegmen sp.