the revised checklist of reptiles for fars province, southern iran, comprises of 63 species in 41 genera, 17 families and two orders (squamata and testudines). the most diverse suborder is the sauria with 38 species or 60.31% of the herpetofauna, followed by serpentes (23 species, 36.5%) and the testudines (2 species, 3.17%). the most diverse families are the colubridae and gekkonidae with 15 a...

A captive specimen of Meller's chameleon, Trioceros melleri (Gray), originally from Tanzania and housed at the Oklahoma City Zoological Park Herpetarium, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, was found to be passing an undescribed species of Choleoeimeria in its feces. Oocysts of Choleoeimeria steveuptoni n. sp. were cylindroidal, 38.5 × 17.8 (36-42 × 17-19) µm with a bilayered wall and a shape index (len...