Publications

ticks (acarina: ixodidae) of reptiles from central, lusaka and southern provinces of zambia.	during the period 1988-1991, reptiles (23 snakes, 36 tortoises, 25 chameleons and 2 monitor lizards) from central, lusaka and southern provinces of zambia were caught and checked for ticks. only 2 snakes, respectively one python sebae (gmelin, 1789) and one bitis arietans (merrem, 1820), 8 tortoises, respectively seven geochelone pardalis (bell, 1828) and one kinixys belliana (gray, 1831) were found infested with a small number of ticks: nymphs and adults of aponomma latum (koch, 1844) and ambly ...	1993	8065818
on raillietnema kinixys n.sp. (cosmocercidae: nematoda) from kinixys belliana (gray).		1964	14250809
parasites of domestic and wild animals in south africa. xlvii. ticks of tortoises and other reptiles.	a total of 586 reptiles, belonging to 35 species and five subspecies, were examined in surveys aimed at determining the species spectrum and geographic distribution of ticks that infest them. of these reptiles 509 were tortoises, 28 monitor or other lizards, and 49 snakes. nine ixodid tick species, of which seven belonged to the genus amblyomma, and one argasid tick, ornithodoros compactus were recovered. seven of the ten tick species are parasites of reptiles. amongst these seven species amblyo ...	2006	17058444
a redescription of haemogregarina fitzsimonsi dias, 1953 and some comments on haemogregarina parvula dias, 1953 (adeleorina: haemogregarinidae) from southern african tortoises (cryptodira: testudinidae), with new host data and distribution records.	blood films were examined from 154 wild and captive tortoises from four provinces of south africa, including gauteng, kwazulu-natal, north west and western cape. the five species ofchelonians studied were chersina angulata (schweigger), kinixys belliana belliana (gray), k. lobatsiana power, k. natalensis hewitt, and stigmochelys pardalis (bell). two species of haemogregarines, previously reported from mozambique, were identified in blood films, namely haemogregarina fitzsimonsi dias, 1953 and ha ...	2009	19827360
hemoproteids (apicomplexa: haemoproteidae) from south african tortoises (cryptodira: testudinidae).	terrestrial tortoises, chersina angulata (schweigger, 1812), kinixys belliana belliana gray, 1831, k. lobatsiana power, 1927, k. natalensis hewitt, 1935, and stigmochelys pardalis (bell, 1828), both wild (n = 84) and captive (n = 70), were examined for hematozoans from the provinces of gauteng, kwazulu-natal, north west, and western cape, south africa. in giemsa-stained blood films, 2 species of hemoproteids were identified, 1 previously described, that is, haemoproteus testudinalis ( lavera ...	2010	21158631