Species Filarinema mawsonae Cassone & Baccam, 1985

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• Filarinema mawsonae Cassone, J. & Baccam, D. 1985. Le genre Filarinema Mönnig, 1929 (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea), parasite de marsupiaux australiens. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 7 2: 349-382 [361].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC43816 Vial ♂, Charters Towers, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC43817 (Allotype) Vial ♀, Charters Towers Queensland; SAMA AHC43818-AHC43843 1 vial 10♂ 16♀, Charters Towers, Queensland; MNHP 159 HD.

  Type host:

   Macropus parryi Bennett, 1835 [MACROPODIDAE] (Parasite from stomach)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Macropus agilis (Gould, 1842) [MACROPODIDAE] Agile Wallaby; Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 [MACROPODIDAE] Allied Rock-wallaby; Petrogale penicillata (Gray, 1825) [MACROPODIDAE] Brush-tailed Rock-wallaby; Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 [MACROPODIDAE] Common Wallaroo; Petrogale godmani Thomas, 1923 [MACROPODIDAE] Godman’s Rock-wallaby; Petrogale mareeba Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Mareeba Rock Wallaby; Thylogale stigmatica (Gould, 1860) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-legged Pademelon; Aepyprymnus rufescens (Gray, 1837) [POTOROIDAE] Rufous Bettong; Petrogale sharmani Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Sharman's Rock-wallaby; Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby; Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby; Macropus parryi (Bennett, 1835) [MACROPODIDAE] Whiptail Wallaby), parasitic (host(s): Macropus parryi (Bennett, 1835) [MACROPODIDAE] Whiptail Wallaby).

Extra Ecological Information

In pyloric antrum.

General References

Beveridge, I. & Spratt, D.M. 1988. A redescription of Filarinema dissimile (Wood, 1931), with new records of other species of Filarinema Moennig, 1929 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from macropodid marsupials. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 112: 57-61 (host records)

Spratt, D.M., Beveridge, I. & Walter, E.L. 1991. A catalogue of Australasian monotremes and marsupials and their recorded helminth parasites. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 1: 1-105 (host records)

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