Research Article
A Survey of Gopherus polyphemus Intestinal Parasites in South Florida
Table 1
Intestinal parasite eggs and oocysts in adult and subadult gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) fecal samples from six populations in South Florida.
| Site | | No. positive (%) | Tachygonetria | Chapiniella | Augusticaecum | Telorchis | Eimeria | Cryptosporidium | Amoebas |
| BSP | 22 | 15(68)a | 6(27)ac | 1(5)a | 6(27)a | 5(22)ac | 0a | 0a | FAU | 18 | 14(78)a | 12(67)b | 0a | 0b | 1(6)abc | 0a | 1(6)a | PJP | 17 | 13(76)a | 9(53)abc | 1(6)a | 1(6)ab | 4(24)c | 1(6)a | 0a | JSPSS | 21 | 17(81)a | 12(57)abc | 0a | 1(5)ab | 0b | 0a | 0a | JDSPP | 14 | 13(93)a | 3(21)ac | 1(7)a | 0ab | 0abc | 0a | 0a | MD | 20 | 17(85)a | 10(50)abc | 1(5)a | 0b | 0b | 0a | 0a | Total | 112 | 89(79) | 52(46) | 4(4) | 8(7) | 10(9) | 1(1) | 1(1) |
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Different letters indicate significant differences in the prevalence between individual sites.
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