Abstract
The ciliate species isolated from midgut and hindgut of Rough-tailed gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827), identified as Nyctotherus hardwickii was collected from many regions of Baghdad, Iraq. The current study deals with a description and comparison of the morphology and morphometric characters of this species for the first time in Iraq.
Highlights
Rough-tailed gecko is a species of gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827), its synonyms are :Gymnodactylus scaber, Cyrtodactylus scaber and Stenodactylus scaber (Roughscaled Gecko) that distributed in Turky, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Jordan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Kuwait, USA (Rosler, 2000) .In Iraq Mahdi and Georg (1969) recorded this rough- tailed gecko in many regions, but there are few studies about their protozoan and other parasites infected by them.Recordings of Nyctotherus sp. are few in the world at large and in Iraq in particular; that Satbige et al (2017) recorded from two pet turtle were presented with a history of diarrhea, dehydration, weight loss and passage of undigested food in the faeces
The current study describes the ciliate species of N. hardwickii isolated from the gut of Rough-tailed gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum for the first time in Baghdad capital of Iraq
All gecko were diagnosed in the Iraqi Natural History Museum and Researches Center where it is the place of this work
Summary
Rough-tailed gecko is a species of gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum (Heyden, 1827), its synonyms are :Gymnodactylus scaber, Cyrtodactylus scaber and Stenodactylus scaber (Roughscaled Gecko) that distributed in Turky, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Jordan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Kuwait, USA (introduced to Texas) (Rosler, 2000) .In Iraq Mahdi and Georg (1969) recorded this rough- tailed gecko in many regions, but there are few studies about their protozoan and other parasites infected by them.Recordings of Nyctotherus sp. are few in the world at large and in Iraq in particular; that Satbige et al (2017) recorded from two pet turtle were presented with a history of diarrhea, dehydration, weight loss and passage of undigested food in the faeces. In Iraq Mahdi and Georg (1969) recorded this rough- tailed gecko in many regions, but there are few studies about their protozoan and other parasites infected by them. The current study describes the ciliate species of N. hardwickii isolated from the gut of Rough-tailed gecko Cyrtopodion scabrum for the first time in Baghdad capital of Iraq. The Rough-tailed gecko (Cyrtopodion scabrum) were collected from different localities of Baghdad city in May to October 2016.
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