Great Basin Naturalist
Volume 56 Number 2 Article 12
4-29-1996
Oochoristica scelopori (Cestoda: Linstowiidae) in a grassland population of the bunch grass lizard, Sceloporus scalaris (Phrynosomatidae), from Arizona
Stephen R. Goldberg Whittier College, Whittier, California
Charles R. Bursey Pennsylvania State University, Shenango Valley Campus, Sharon, Pennsylvania
Chris T. McAllister Texas Wesleyan University, Fort Worth, Texas
Hobart M. Smith University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Quynh A. Truong Whittier College, Whitter, California
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Recommended Citation Goldberg, Stephen R.; Bursey, Charles R.; McAllister, Chris T.; Smith, Hobart M.; and Truong, Quynh A. (1996) "Oochoristica scelopori (Cestoda: Linstowiidae) in a grassland population of the bunch grass lizard, Sceloporus scalaris (Phrynosomatidae), from Arizona," Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 56 : No. 2 , Article 12. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol56/iss2/12
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OOCHORISTlCA SCELOPORI (CESTODA: LINSTOWIIDAE) IN A GRASSLAND POPULATION OF THE BUNCH GRASS LIZARD, SCELOPORUS SCAJARIS (PHRYNOSOMATIDAE), FROM ARIZONA
Stephen R. Goldberg1, Charles R. Bursey2, Chris T McAllister3, Hobart M. Smith4, and Quynh A. Truong1
Key wor(ls: Sceloporus scalaris, hunch grass lizard, Phrynosomatidae, Oochoristica scelopori, Cestoda, Arizona.
The bunch grass lizard (SeeloporHs sealaris identified using a glycerol wet mount. Repre Wiegmann, 1828) is known from the Huachuca, sentative cestodes were stained with hema Dragoon, Santa Rita, and Chiricahua moun toxylin and mounted in balsam for further ex tains ofArizona, the Animas Mountains of New amination. Voucher specimens ,vere deposited Mexico, and in the Sierra Madre Occidental in the U,S, National Parasite Collection, and Sierra del Nido of Mexico, usually above Beltsville, Maryland 20705 (USNPC 85053). 1830 m, but a few isolated valley populations Terminology use is in accordance with Margo occur as low as 1200 m (Stebbins 198.5), To our lis et a!. (1982). knowledge, the only report of helminths ofthis Only 1 helminth was fonnd, the cestode species was a study of a high-elevation (2438 Oochoristiea seelopori Voge and Fox 19.50. 2.560 m) Chiricahua Mountain population of Prevalence of infection was 10% (5 of 51); 5celoporus sealaris slevini by Goldberg and mean intensity = 1.2 + 0.45 [s], range 1-2. Bursey (1992a), The purpose of our note is to In the only other investigation of helminths report on a helminthological examination of a of S, sealaris, Goldberg and Bursey (1992a) low-elevation (ca 1.524 m) grassland popula reported finding tetrathyridia of the cestode tion of S. scalaris slevini Smith, 1937 fi'om Ari Mesocestoides sp, (prevalence 8%) and larvae zona, and to compare our findings with those of the nematode Physaloptera sp. (prevalence ofGoldberg and Bursey (1992a). 3%). That study was done on a coniferous for We examined 51 S. scalaris slevini (mean est high-elevation popnlation (approximately snout-vent length .51 + 3.4 mm [s], range 2500 m) in the Chiricahua Mountains, \vhereas 40-.5.5 mm) collected (mostly by hand, a few the current study considered a low-elevation by dust shot) on the Sonoita Plain, elevation ca population (ca 1.524 m) 011 the Sonoita Plain, 1.524 m (31 °39'N, 111 °32'W), in the vicinity of located ca 126 km SE ofthe Chiricahua Moun Elgin, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Specimens tains study site. Although both populations were deposited in the University of Colorado, harbored mutually exclusive helminth faunas, Museum of Natural History, Boulder, Colorado additional work on larger S. scalaris samples as UCM .572.59-.57282; .57284-.57286; .57289 from these sites will be required to determine .57292; .5729.5-.57298; .57300-.5730.5; .57307-.57310; the constancy ofthese differences. 57313-57316; .57318-.57319. UCM 57318-.57319 Oochoristica seelopori is a common cestode were collected 20 August 1989; others were of North American lizards and has been found collected 12-19 July 1990. in 14 other North American phrynosomatid The abdomen was opened, and the esopha lizards (Table 1). In addition, Amrein (1951) gus, stomach, and small and large intestines and Telford (1964) reported finding 0. scelo were removed from the carcass. Each organ pori in the xantusiids, Xantusia henshawi, X. was slit longitudinally and examined under a riversiana, and X. vigllis. Measurements of dissecting microscope. The liver and body various structures of these cestodes were strik cavity were also examined. Each helminth was ingly different from the measurements as given
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TABLE 1. Definitive hosts ofOoclwristico scelopori in North America. Host Locality Prevalence Reference Crotaphytus col/ads California 100% (Ill) Telford 1970 Gambelia wislizenii California 40% (2/5) Telfo,d 1970 Sceloporus clarki.t Arizona 5% (120) Goldberg et a1. 1994 S. gracWstI,J California not given Vage and Fox: 1950 California 10%(7nI) TeLford 1970 Idaho 22% (219) Waitz 1961 Idaho 1% (lIll8) Lyon 1986 Utah 5% (l/22) Pearce and Tanner 1973 S. jarrovii Arizona 10% (47/489) Goldberg and Bursey 1990 Arizona 3% (If,ll) Goldberg and Bursey 1992b Arizona 5% (151302) GoLdberg el al. 1995a S. magister Ariz.ona (?13) Walker and Mathias 1973 Texas 6% (1117) Goldb",g et aI. 1995b S. occidentalis California 20% (13/65) Voge and Fox 1950 California 23% (27/ll6) Telford 1970 Idaho ll% (2119) Lyon 1986 Oregon 33% (20/50) White and Knapp 1979 Utah 9% (lIll) Pearce and Tanner 1973 S. oliooceus Texas 3% (2161) Goldberg etal. 1995b S. orcutti California 22% (16n4) Goldberg and Bursey 1991 S. poinsettii Texas 30% (3/10) Goldberg et aI. 1993 S. scalaris Arizona 10%(5151) this paper S. undulatus Arizona 6% (3/48) Goldbe,g et al. 1994 U,na irnJT'l16la California 7% (1115) Telford 1970 U notata California 42% (10/24) Telfo,d 1970 Urosatlrm graciosus California 6% (2134) Telford 1970
in the original description of 0. scelopori by GoLDBERG, S. R., AND C. R. Bl.iRSEY. 1990. Gastrointestinal Voge and Fox (1950). Amrein (1951) reported helminths ofthe Yarrow spiny lizard, S,:eloporus jar rovii jarrovii Cope. American Midland Naturalist the average length of25 mature cestodes from 124,360-365. X. henshawi and X. vigilis to be 15.82 mm; the ----;'C'. 1991. Intestinal helminths of the granite spiny cestodes from X. riversiana measured 33-37 lizard (Sceloporos Of'"CLltti). Journal of Wildlife Dis mm. Telford (1964) indicated his cestode spec eases 27: 355--.J57. imens from xantusiid lizards were less than 45 . 1992a. Helminths of the bunch grass lizard, ---'s<;;;"'e/qporus =loris ,levin; (Iguanidae). Journal of the mm. Both Amrein and Telford identilled these Helminthological Society ofWashington 59; 130-131. cestodes as 0. scelnpori. Bursey and Goldberg . 1992b. Prevalence of the nematode SpclUligodon (1992) found Amrein's measurements of ces --g-"'iganticus (Oxyurida: Pharyngodonidae) in neonatal todes from X. henshawi and X. vigilis to approx Yarrow's spiny lizards. Sceloporus jarrol;ii (Sauria: imate the measurements of 0. bezyi, whereas Iguanidae). Journal of Parasitology 78: 539-541. GoLDBERC, S. R., C. R. BURSEY, AND R. L. BEZY. 1995a. Telford's measurements of cestodes from X. Helminths ofisolated montane populations ofYarrow's rive-J·si.ana approximated measurements of O. spiny lizard, Sceloporus jarrovii (Phrynosomalidae). islandensis and suggested that X. henslwwi, X. Southwestern Naturalist 40: 330-333. rive-rsiana, and X. oigilis be removed from the GoLDBERC, S. R., C. R. BURSEY, AND C. T. McALLISTER. host list of 0. scelnpori, leaving only phrynoso 1995b. Gastrointestinal helminths of nine ::;pecies of Sceloporw lizards (Phrynosomalidae) from Texas. matid lizards as hosts for 0. scelopori. Journal of the Helminthological Society ofWashing ton 62: 188-196. LITERATURE CITED GOLDBERG, S. R., C. R. BURSEY, AND R. TAWIL. 1993. Gas trointestinal helminths of the crevice spiny lizard, AMREIN, Y. U. 1951. The intestinal entozoa of the night Sceloporos poinsettii (Phrynosomatidae). Journal of lizards of California and their mode of transmission. the Helminthological Society of Washington 60: Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University ofeaJi· 263-265. forma. Los Angeles. 162 pp. _---;,.. 1994. Gastrointestinal helminths of Sceloporus BURSEY, C. R., AND S. R. COLDBERG. 1992. Ooclwristica lizards from Arizona. Journal of the Helminthologi islandensta n. sp. (Cestoda; Linstowiidae) from the cal Society ofWashington 61; 73--83. island night lizard, Xantusia riversiana (Sauna: Xan LYON, R. E. 1986. Helminth parasites of six lizard species tusiidae). Transactions of the American Microscopi from southern Idaho. Proceedings ofthe Helmintho cal Society 11L 302--313. logical Society ofWa..shington 53: 291-293. 182 GREAT BASIN NATURALIST [Volume 56
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