Species Mammanidula melomyos (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Mastonema melomyos Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [817].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41334 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial), Whyanbeel, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41334 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial), Whyanbeel, Queensland; SAMA AHC3859 Vial, Whyanbeel, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from mammary gland. Originally described as Melomys lutillus (Thomas, 1913).)

Generic Combinations

• Mammanidula melomyos (Mawson, 1961). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1971. Essai de classification des Nématodes Héligmosomes. Corrélations avec la paléobigéographie des hôtes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 64: 1-126

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] Grassland Melomys (= M. lutillus (Ramsay, 1887))).

Extra Ecological Information

In mammary gland.

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1969. Les systèmes d'arêtes cuticulaires chez les nématodes héligmosomes parasites de muridés australiens. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 44: 733-747 (redescription)

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