Helmint parasites of the Turkish Smooth Newt, Lissotriton schmidtleri (Raxworthy, 1988) and Balkan Crested Newt, Triturus ivanbureschi Arntzen & Wielstra, 2013 from İzmir, Turkey

Birlik S., Yıldırımhan H. S., Olgun K., Avcı A., Ilgaz Ç., Üzüm N.

RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.1-4, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.30906/1026-2296-2023-30-1-1-4
  • Dergi Adı: RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, BIOSIS
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-4
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We studied the helminths parasitizing the individuals of the Turkish smooth newt, Lissotriton schmidtleri (n = 60)

and the Balkan crested newt, Triturus ivanbureschi (n = 40) collected from two localities in Ýzmir, Turkey. Of the

100 newts, 20 (20%) were infected. We detected only one species of parasites, Megalobatrachonema terdentatum

(Nematoda: Kathlaniidae), with a prevalence of 0.13% and 0.30% in L. schmidtleri and T. ivanbureschi, respectively.

Triturus ivanbureschi represents a new host record for M. terdentatum. Also we present new locality records

for both hosts and helminth species.