| biodiversity and prevalence of parasites of domestic pigeons (columba livia domestica) in a selected semiarid zone of south khorasan, iran. | five species of nematodes and cestodes were collected from alimentary canals of pigeons: the nematodes were two species: ascaridia colombae (16.66%) and hadjelia truncata (1.96%), while the cestodes were cotugnia digonopora (13.79%), raillietina magninumida (18.62%) and raillietina achinobothridia (32.35%); fecal examination revealed: eimeria spp. (40.19%) and cryptosporidium oocysts (2.94%); and blood smears showed: haemoproteus cloumbae (47/05%); in mouth, throat and larynx: trichomonans galli ... | 2012 | 22081317 |