[Parasites of fresh water turtles in Tunisia]

A survey work during 1974-75 on the parasites of aquatic turtles of Tunisia, twenty one specimens (9 males and 12 females) were captured in the watercourses of the northern area of Tunisia and dissected in the Institut Pasteur of Tunis. These turtles belong to the species; Clemmys caspica var. leprosa and Emys orbicularis (L. 1758). The following parasites were recovered from these turtles: Trematodes: Polystomoides tunisiensis and Telorchis temimi (Gonzalez and Mishra, 1977) and T. solivagus (Odhner, 1902); Nematodes: Camallanus parvus (Eduardo Caballero, 1939); Spiroxys contortus (Rudolphi, 1819) and Spironoura lambdiensis (Seurat, 1918); Protozoa: Haemogregarina stepanovi (Dan, 1886) and Entamoeba invadens (Geiman and Ratcliff, 1936). Ectoparasites: Placobdella costata (Moquin - Tandom). In addition to these parasites, unidentified nematode larvae were detected on several occasions; in the bile ducts and within the hepatic cysts of the turtles examined. Two trematodes P. tunisiensis and T. temimi are recorded and described for the first time.