Physalopteroides, Wu & Liu, 1940

Goldberg, Stephen R., Bursey, Charles R. & Grismer, L. Lee, 2015, Gastrointestinal helminths of nine species of Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia, one species from Cambodia and Thailand and two species from Vietnam, Journal of Natural History 49 (43), pp. 2683-2691 : 2688

Species of Physalopteroides

are common in the Southern Hemisphere and are known from Africa, South America, Australia, South America and also Cuba ( Baker 1987). Physalopteroides sp. in C. peninsularis is a new host record.

Physalopteridae gen. sp. include three subfamilies which occur in the stomachs of reptiles, birds and mammals, where they firmly attach to the gastric mucosa; only species in the Physalopterinae have been studied ( Chabaud 1975). Encysted physalopterid larvae are common in the digestive tracts of reptiles ( Jones 1995). As development to the adult does not occur, infected reptiles serve as paratenic (transport) hosts. Physalopteridae in C. limi and C. nuicamensis are new host records.