Parasitic infections of the lizards tested
There was a 52% prevalence of Western black-legged ticks, Ixodes
pacificus , in the sample of lizards that were tested in staged pairwise
contests with mean ± SE infestation of 1.90 ± 0.34 ticks per lizard
(range = 0-7). Mites infested 35.7% of the lizards. The putative
species of mite was Geckobiella cf. texana . The genera of
hematic and intestinal coccidians that infect the lizards were
molecularly identified in previous studies (genera Lankesterellaand Acroeimeria , respectively; Megía-Palma et al. 2015, 2017).
The prevalence of Lankesterella was 42.8% and Acroeimeriawas 38%.