Genus Hepatozoon Miller, 1908

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• Hepatozoon Miller, W.W. 1908. Hepatozoon perniciosum (n. gen., n. sp.); a Haemogregarine pathogenic for white rats; with a description of the sexual cycle in the intermediate host, a mite (Lelaps echidninus). U.S. Public Health Service, Hygienic Laboratory Bulletin 46: 1-48 [48].

 

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from Queensland.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL) ; Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat, Allied Rat (blood); Morelia spilotes (Lacepede, 1804) [BOIDAE] Carpet & Diamond Pythons (syn. Morelia spilota; blood); Dendrelaphis punctulata (Gray, 1826) [COLUBRIDAE] Common Tree Snake (blood); Canis familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 [CANIDAE] Domestic Dog (blood, liver); Perameles gunnii Gray, 1838 [PERAMELIDAE] Eastern Barred Bandicoot (blood); Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Collett, 1884) [PETAURIDAE] Herbert River Ringtail Possum (blood); Varanus varius (White, 1790) [VARANIDAE] Lace Monitor (blood); Tiliqua gerradii (Gray, 1845) [SCINCIDAE] Pink-tongued Lizard (syn. Cyclodomorphus gerrardii; blood); Stegonotus cucullatus (Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 1854) [COLUBRIDAE] Slaty-grey Snake (blood); Gehyra variegata (Dumeril & Bibron, 1836) [GEKKONIDAE] Tree Dtella (blood); Egernia striolata (Peters, 1870) [SCINCIDAE] Tree Skink (blood); Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873 [BOIDAE] Water Python (syn. Bothrochilus fuscus; blood (+PCR))).

Associated Fauna References

Mulder, E. & Smales, L. 2015. The endoparasites of Liasis fuscus (Serpentes : Boidae) from the Adelaide River floodplain, Northern Territory, Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 63: 81-90 (Liasis fuscus)

 

General References

Bettiol, S.S., Goldsmid, J.M., Le, D.D. & Driessen, M. 1996. The first record of a member of the genus Hepatozoon in the eastern barred bandicoot (Perameles gunnii) in Tasmania. Journal of Parasitology 82: 829-830

Bull, L.B. 1914. Tuberculosis in dogs. Veterinary Journal 70: 34-44

Davies, A.J. & Johnston, M.R.L. 2000. The biology of some intraerythrocytic parasites of fishes, amphibia and reptiles. Advances in Parasitology 45: 1-109

Jakes, K., O'Donoghue, P.J. & Cameron, S.L. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of Hepatozoon (Haemogregarina) boigae, Hepatozoon sp., Haemogregarina clelandi and Haemoproteus chelodina from Australian reptiles to other Apicomplexa based on cladistic analyses of ultrastructural and life-cycle characters. Parasitology 126: 555-559

Ladds, P. 2009. Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 640 pp.

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160

Madsen, T., Ujvari, B. & Olsson, M. 2005. Old pythons stay fit; effects of haematozoan infections on life history traits of a large tropical predator. Oecologia 142: 407-412

Madsen, T. & Ujvari, B. 2006. MHC class I variation associates with parasite resistance and longevity in tropical pythons. Evolutionary Biology 19: 1973-1978

O'Donoghue, P.J. 1997. Protozoan parasites of wildlife in south-east Queensland. pp. 119-136 in Tribe, A. (ed.). Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Australian Association of Veterinary Conservation Biologists. Brisbane : Australian Veterinary Association.

Peirce, M.A. & Adlard, R.D. 2004. Haemoparasites from clinical screening of reptiles in south-east Queensland, Australia. Veterinary Record 155: 708-709

Seddon, H.R. 1952. Diseases of domestic animals in Australia. Part 4. Protozoan and viral diseases. Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Division of Veterinary Hygeine) Vol. No. 8.

Speare, R., Haffenden, A.T., Daniels, P.W., Thomas, A.D. & Seawright, C.D. 1984. Diseases of the Herbert River ringtail, Pseudocheirus herbertensis, and other north Queensland rainforest possums. pp. 283-302 in Smith, A.P. & Hume, I.D. (eds). Possums and Ringtails. Sydney : Australian Mammal Society.

Ujvari, B., Madsen, T. & Olsson, M. 2004. High prevalence of Hepatozoon spp. (Apicomplexa, Hepatozoidae) infection in water pythons (Liasis fuscus) from tropical Australia. Journal of Parasitology 90: 670-672

Ujvari, B. & Madsen, T. 2005. Age, parasites, and condition affect humoral immune response in tropical pythons. Behavioral Ecology 17: 20-24

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Dec-2014	APICOMPLEXA Levine, 1970	10-Apr-2024	MODIFIED
26-Jul-2012		26-Jul-2012	MODIFIED
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