TY - JOUR AU - Doanh, Pham Ngoc AU - Le, Nguyen Thi PY - 2015/08/28 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Trematodes parasiting in giant lizards in Vietnam JF - Academia Journal of Biology JA - AJB VL - 25 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.15625/0866-7160/v25n1.6793 UR - https://vjs.ac.vn/index.php/vjbio/article/view/6793 SP - 5-10 AB - <p>Two giant lizard species <em>Varanus nebulosus</em> (Gray, 1831) and <em>Varanus salvator</em> (Laurentin, 1786) were examined for parasites. In this paper, the authors report the trematoda infection rate and describe 8 species of trematodes collected from these studied giant lizards. The infection rate in <em>Varanus nebulosus</em> is at 73.6% (14/19) and 85% <em>Varanus salvator</em> are infected. Eight species of trematodes from giant lizards are identified as <em>Singhiatrema vietnamensis </em>Curran  S. S., Overstreet R. M., The D. T., Le. N. T., 2001<em>,</em> <em>Testisacculus indicus</em> (Bhalerao, 1931), <em>Haplorchis pumilio </em>(Loos, 1896), <em>Diplodiscus mehrai</em> Pande, 1937<em>, Encyclometra colubrimurorum</em> (Rud., 1819), <em>Euparadistomum varani</em> Tubangui, 1931, <em>Mesocoelium pearsei </em>Goto et Ozaki, 1930<em> </em>and<em> Meristocotyle </em>sp. The last species may be a new species for science.</p> ER -