Figures & data
Figure 1. Pulmonary wash from an indigo snake containing larvated and unlarvated eggs, empty egg shells and free moving larvae (inset) consistent with multiple stages of Kiricephalus coarctatus. Bar = 100 µm; Inset bar = 50 µm.
Figure 2. Adult male (right) and female (left) Kiricephalus coarctatus removed from an Eastern Indigo snake.
Figure 3. Bayesian phylogenetic tree of predicted homologous 376–383 nucleotide sequences of the 18S rRNA gene of pentastomids. Genbank accession numbers follow the names. Bayesian posterior probabilities of branchings, as percentages, are in bold on the left and ML bootstrap values for branchings are given to the right. Pentastomid orders are marked with brackets. An arrow marks Kiricephalus coarctatus.
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