Table 2.
Helminth taxa collected from Sceloporus pyrocephalus Cope (Phrynosomatidae) at various localities in Mexico. Values presented for 3 locality are number of hosts examined (n), followed by prevalence (P%) and mean abundance (MA – range or number of specimens recovered when number of hosts parasitized was 1).
| Locality | Cestoda | Nematoda | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mesocestoides sp.†, L | Oochoristica sp.‡, A | Parapharyngodon ayotzinapaensis Garduño-Montes de Oca et al., 2016§, A | Parapharyngodon tikuinii Garduño-Montes de Oca et al., 2016§, A | Parapharyngodon sp.§, A | Physalopterinae gen. sp.|, L | Skrjabinoptera scelopori Caballero-Rodríguez, 1971‡, A | Strongyluris similis Caballero, 1938§, A | Thubunaea leonregagnonae sp. n.|, A | ||
| Michoacán | ||||||||||
| Maruata | n | 3 | n=3 | |||||||
| P% | 100 | 33.33 | ||||||||
| MA | 13.33 (7–24) | 2.33 (7) | ||||||||
| Caleta de Campos | n | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| P% | 33.33 | 33.33 | 100 | |||||||
| MA | 7.67 (23) | 2.67 (8) | 17.67 (9–23) | |||||||
| Aquila | n | 3 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| P% | 33.33 | 33.33 | 66.67 | |||||||
| MA | 42.33 (127) | 5.66 (17) | 1.33 (4) | |||||||
| Nuevo Corongoros | n | 3 | ||||||||
| P% | 100 | |||||||||
| MA | 6 (2–11) | |||||||||
| Arteaga | n | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| P% | 14.29 | 28.57 | 14.29 | 57.14 | ||||||
| MA | 0.28 (2) | 0.71 (2–3) | 0.28 (2) | 4.28 (3–18) | ||||||
| La Huacana | n | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| P% | 14.29 | 28.57 | 85.71 | |||||||
| MA | 0.14 (1) | 2 (1–13) | 9.57 (1–17) | |||||||
| Los Laureles | n | 4 | ||||||||
| P% | 50 | |||||||||
| MA | 4.75 (5–14) | |||||||||
| San Isidro Tecuiluca | n | 5 | 5 | |||||||
| P% | 20 | 60 | ||||||||
| MA | 0.2 (1) | 0.6 (3) | ||||||||
| Los Avillos | n | 1 | ||||||||
| P% | 100 | |||||||||
| MA | – (1) | |||||||||
| Buenavista Tomatlán July 2005 |
n | 22 | 22 | 22 | 22 | |||||
| P% | 4.54 | 9.09 | 27.27 | 18.18 | ||||||
| MA | 0.13 (3) | 0.23 (2–3) | 1.14 (1–8) | 11.32 (14–235) | ||||||
| Apatzingan | n | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| P% | 50 | 50 | ||||||||
| MA | 0.5 (1) | 0.5 (1) | ||||||||
| Lombardia | n | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | ||||
| P% | 8.3 | 16.67 | 16.67 | 16.67 | 8.33 | |||||
| MA | 0.08 (1) | 0.66 (2–4) | 0.33 (1–3) | 0.33 (4) | 2.42 (29) | |||||
| Guerrero | ||||||||||
| Coyuquilla | n | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| P% | 50 | 50 | ||||||||
| MA | 1.5 (3) | 0.5 (1) | ||||||||
| Tecpan de Galeana | n | 7 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| P% | 14.29 | 57.14 | 14.29 | |||||||
| MA | 1.71 (12) | 2.14 (3–4) | 1 (7) | |||||||
| Coyuca de Catalán | n | 1 | ||||||||
| P% | 100 | |||||||||
| MA | – (4) | |||||||||
| Hosts parasitized/ hosts examined | 2/61 | 1/61 | 6/61 | 11/61 | 20/61 | 5/61 | 6/61 | 7/61 | 14/61 | |
| Specimens recovered | 130 | 1 | 42 | 19 | 58 | 278 | 77 | 52 | 157 | |
| Intensity range | 3–27 | – | 2–17 | 1–5 | 1–25 | 29–249 | 14–40 | 7–19 | 7–67 | |
Site in host: † Body cavity; ‡ Small intestine; § Large intestine; | Stomach. L = larval stage; A = adult stage.