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%.