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Ghaemi, P.; Sadr-Shirazi, N.; Ghaemi, P.
Study on Helminthic Parasites of Persian Leopard (Panthera pardus Saxicolor Pocock, 1927) in Golestan National Park and Bioshpere Reserve of Iran
2011 World Applied Sciences Journal (13): 1471-1473
Golestan National Park is a very important area for its amazing richness of biodiversity in Iran. The Persian leopard (_Panthera pardus saxicolor_) is the largest subspecies of this cat which is classified in the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species as "Endangered". In this survey, internal and external parasites of two leopards including both genders, killed in a car accident inadvertently, in the Golestan National Park and Biospehre Reserve in North of Iran were studied. Total of 24 nematode helminthes were obtained from the intestine of both of them, identified as _Toxocara cati_. The number of parasites in the female one (21 worms) is seven times more than the male one (3 worms). This is the first reprot of _Toxocara cati_ from the Persian Leopard in the Biosphere Reserve of the Golestan National Park from Iran.
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