| parasites of italian sea turtles. ii. loggerhead turtles (caretta caretta [linnaeus, 1758]). | eleven out of fourteen sea turtles (caretta caretta) stranded along the coast of the adriatic sea (mediterranean sea) were found infected with helminths. seven trematode species (rhytidodes gelatinosus, orchidasma amphiorchis, enodiotrema megachondrus. pachypsolus irroratus, pleurogonius trigonocephalus, calicodes anthos, plesiochorus cymbiformis) and one nematode (sulcascaris sulcata) were found. s. sulcata was the most frequent species in the stomach and r. gelatinosus in the intestine. these ... | 1998 | 10376287 |
| gastrointestinal helminth community of loggerhead sea turtle caretta caretta in the adriatic sea. | we analysed the intestinal helminth community of 70 loggerhead sea turtles caretta caretta with a curved carapace length ranging from 25 to 85.4 cm, recovered dead in neritic foraging habitats in the adriatic sea in 1995 to 2004. the overall prevalence of infection was high (70.0%), with a mean abundance of 36.8 helminth parasites per turtle. helminth fauna comprised 5 trematodes (calycodes anthos, enodiotrema megachondrus, orchidasma amphiorchis, pachypsolus irroratus, rhytidodes gelatinosus) a ... | 2012 | 22832721 |