Intestinal helminths are reported from four species of scincid lizards from southern Africa: Mabuya occidentalis, Mabuya spilogaster, Mabuya striata and Mabuya variegata. The helminth fauna consisted of one species of Cestoda, Oochoristica truncata and five species of Nematoda, Abbreviata paradoxa, Maxvachonia dimorpha, Parapharyngodon rotundatus, Spauligodon petersi and Thubunaea fitzsimonsi. ...

A new haemogregarine species Hepatozoon affluomaloti sp. n. is described from erythrocytes in the peripheral blood of crag lizards Pseudocordylus melanotus (Smith) and Pseudocordylus subviridis (Smith) (Sauria: Cordylidae) from mountainous regions in the Eastern Free State, South Africa. This species can be distinguished from all other congeners based on its large size, staining properties and ...

Wall lizards of the genus Podarcis (Sauria, Lacertidae) are predominant reptile group in southern Europe, including 24 recognized species. Mitochondrial DNA data have shown that, with exception P. muralis, species distributed Balkan peninsula form a that is further sub-divided into two subgroups: one “P. tauricus” consisting tauricus, milensis, gaigeae, and melisellensis, other erhardii” compri...