Helminth parasites of the grass snake, Natrix natrix, and the dice snake, Natrix tessellata (Serpentes : Colubridae), from Turkey

Abstract

Twenty-one grass snakes, Natrix natrix, and 24 dice Snakes, Natrix tessellata, from Turkey were examined for helminths. Natrix natrix harbored 5 species of Digenea: Astiotrema monticelli, Encyclometra colubrimutrorum, Macrodera longicollis. Paralepoderma cloacicola, and Telorchis assula; 2 species of Cestoda: Ophiotaenia europaea and Spirometra erinaceieuropae: and 2 species of Cetoda: Rhabdias fuscovenosa and larvae of Eustrongylides excisus. Natrix tessellata snakes harbored 1 species of Diggenea, Telorchis assula: 1 Species of Cestoda, Ophiotaenia europacu; and 2 species of Nematoda. Rhabdias fuscovenosa and larvae of Eustrongylides excisus. Turkey is a new locality record for A. monticelli, P. cloaciola. T. assida. O. europaea. S. erinaceieuropae. larvae of E. excisus and R. fuscovellosa.