MORTALITY IN RED-SIDED GARTER SNAKES, THAMNOPHIS-SIRTALIS-PARIETALIS, DUE TO LARVAL NEMATODE, EUSTRONGYLIDES SP

  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 26  (3) , 465-467
Abstract
Garter snakes, T. s. parietalis, that were fed wild-caught banded killifish, Fundulus diaphanus, and laboratory-bred leopard frogs, Rana pipiens, were infected by Eustrongylides sp.; 7 of 25 snakes died. Signs of infection in 20 snakes included s.c. lumps, violent contortions and bloody exudate, apparently from the nares. Nematodes were collected at necropsy from beneath the skin, in the lungs, in the body cavity, and along the spinal column. Nematodes were surgically removed from s.c. sites in 2 garter snakes which recovered completely.

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