A CENSUS OF AUSTIULIAN REPTILIAN 

 ENTOZOA. 



By T. HARVEY JOHNSTON, M.A., D.Sc, 



Biology Department, University, Brisbane. 



Bead before the Royal Society of Queensland, October 2Sthj 



1911. 



The present paper is the result of an attempt to collect 

 references to the occurrence of entozoa and haematozoa 

 in Australian reptiles, the term Australian being used 

 in a mde sense so as to include forms from New Guinea and 

 New Britain, as was done in a similar paper on avian entozoa. 

 (Johnston, 1910 c.) 



Many of the follo^\dng records, more especially those 

 which give merely the generic name of a nematode infest- 

 ing a certain host, are of Httle value, but for the sake of 

 completeness, they have been tabulated. Dr. Sweet (1908) 

 has already collected a number of earlier records and 

 pubhshed them in her Census of Australian Entozoa. The 

 greater part of the hterature referring to our reptihan haema- 

 tozoa has been brought together in papers by Dr. Cleland 

 and myself. (Johnston and Cleland, 1910 a; 1911 a.) 



I have mentioned synonyms of the accepted specific 



name of the host only in those cases where a recorder of the 



occurrence of a parasite has referred to the host under such 



name. 



OPHIDIA. 



1. Python spilotes Lacep, (syn. Morelia spilotes.) 



The Diamond Snake. 



'a Hcemogregariiia shattocki, Sambon & Seligmann, 



1907, p. 284 ; Sambon, 1907, p. 310 ; Sambon, 



1909, p. Ill ; Dobell, 1908, p. 291 {Hcemogregarina 



sp.) ; Laveran, 1908, p. 103. 



*a, denotes that the parasite is a Protozoon ; h, that it is a Cestode ; 

 c, a Trematode ; d, a Nematode ; e, an Acanthocephalan ; /, a Linguatulid. 



