A new acroeimerian (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in spotted house gecko, Gekko monarchus (Schlegel) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) fro
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A new acroeimerian (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) in spotted house gecko, Gekko monarchus (Schlegel) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia Chris T. McAllister Evan S. H. Quah
. John A. Hnida . Sam R. Fisher
. L. A. Del Pinto
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Received: 6 February 2020 / Accepted: 20 July 2020 Ó Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract A new species of Acroeimeria Paperna & Landsberg, 1989 is described from the spotted house gecko, Gekko monarchus (Schlegel) from Peninsular Malaysia. Oo¨cysts of Acroeimeria grismeri n. sp. are spheroidal to subspheroidal with a smooth bi-layered wall, measure on average 18.4 9 17.3 lm, and have a length/width (L/W) ratio of 1.1; a micropyle and an
oo¨cyst residuum are absent but variable polar granule(s) are present, commonly in Brownian movement. Sporocysts are ellipsoidal and measure on average 8.6 9 6.7 lm, L/W 1.3; Stieda, sub-Stieda and para-Stieda bodies are absent. The sporocyst residuum is composed of numerous spheroidal granules in the center of the sporocyst. This is the initial species of coccidian reported from G. monarchus and one of the few reported from any reptile from Peninsular Malaysia.
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C. T. McAllister (&) Science and Mathematics Division, Eastern Oklahoma State College, Idabel, OK 74745, USA e-mail: [email protected] J. A. Hnida Department of Microbiology, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ 85308, USA S. R. Fisher L. A. Del Pinto Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500 Riverwalk Pkwy, Riverside, CA 92505, USA E. S. H. Quah Institute of Tropical Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, 21030 Tereng-ganu, Malaysia
The spotted house gecko, Gekko monarchus (Schlegel) is a medium-sized saurian that occurs in disturbed habitats and human habitations of southern Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore, the Kei Islands, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea (Grismer & Quah, 2019); it has also been accidentally imported into Africa (Bauer, 2004). This gecko is insectivorous, feeding on various types of arthropods (spiders, crickets, flies, roaches, termites, and wasps). A great deal of information is available on eimeriid coccidians from lizards of the family Gekkonidae (Gray) (see most recent summation by El-Toukhy et al., 2013); however, none have been reported from G. monarchus and only three species have been reported from lizards from Malaysia (Else & Colley, 1975; Maupin et al., 1998). Here, we provide a description of a new species of Acroeimeria Paperna
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& Landsberg, 1989, from G. monarchus from Peninsular Malaysia.
Family Eimeriidae Minchin, 1903 Genus Acroeimeria Paperna
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