Twenty-four of 87 (28%) parthe-nogenetic Chihuahuan spotted whiptails (Cnemidophorus exsanguis) from nine counties of New Mexico and seven counties of Texas were infected with one or more endoparasites. These included a linstowiid cestode (Oochoristica bivitellobata) in seven (8%), a larval spirurid nematode (Physaloptera sp.) in nine (10%) and an oxyurid nematode (Pharyngodon warneri) in 10 (11%). This note, the third in a series of reports on helminths of Cnemidophorus spp., documents parasites in C. exsanguis for the first time.
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1 October 1990
Helminth Parasites of Unisexual and Bisexual Whiptail Lizards (Teiidae) in North America. III. The Chihuahuan Spotted Whiptail (Cnemidophorus exsanguis)
Chris T. McAllister
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 26 • No. 4
October 1990
Vol. 26 • No. 4
October 1990
Cestoidea
Cnemidophorus exsanguis
Cyclophyllidea
helminths
Lizards
Oochoristica hnvitellobata
Oxyurida