Summary
Examination of the intestines of several specimens of the common wall-lizardHemidactylus flavoviridis (Ruppel) revealed the presence of two species of Nematodes:
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Thubunæa asymmetrica (Baylis, 1930), recorded fromMabuya maculilabris (Gray), Uganda, but not recorded so far from this host and from India;
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Thelandros hemidactylus sp. nov. a new species of the genusThelandros Wedl, 1862. A key to the species of the genusThelandros is given.
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(Communicated by Prof. M. A. Moghe,m.a., m.sc., f.z.s.)
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Patwardhan, S.S. Nematodes from the common wall lizardHemidactylus flavoviridis (Ruppel). Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 1, 376–380 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03039764
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