Species Amidostomum biziurae Johnston & Mawson, 1947

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• Amidostomum biziurae Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1947. Some avian and fish nematodes chiefly from Tailem Bend, South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 547-553 [551].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA V1259, Tailem Bend, SA.
  Paratype(s) SAMA V 2878 (as allotype).

  Type host:

   Biziura lobata Stephens, 1824 [ANATIDAE]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, SA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Biziura lobata (Shaw, 1796) [ANATIDAE] Musk Duck), parasitic (host(s): Biziura lobat [ANATIDAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

In gizzard

General References

Mawson, P.M., Angel, L.M. & Edmonds, S.J. 1986. A checklist of helminths from Australian birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 219-325 (Australian records)

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