Species Anisakis simplex (Rudolphi, 1809)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ascaris simplex Rudolphi, C.A. 1809. Entozoorum sive vermium intestinalium historia naturalis. Amsterdam : Sumtibus Tabernae Librariae et Artium Vol. 2(1) 457 pp. [170].
• Anisakis kogiae Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1939. Internal parasites of the pigmy sperm whale. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 263-274 [263].

  Type data:

   
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC1611 Vial, Moreton Bay, Queensland;
  Syntype(s) SAMA AHC41337 Vial, Port Victoria, Spencers Gulf, South Australia & Moreton Bay, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Kogia breviceps (de Blainville, 1838) [KOGIIDAE] (Parasite from stomach)
• Ascaris similis Baird, W 1853. A Catalogue of the Species of Entozoa or Intestinal Worms contained in the Collections of the British Museum. London : printed by order of the Trustees 132 pp. [19].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Davey, J.T. 1971. A revision of the genus Anisakis Dujardin, 1845 (Nematoda: Ascaridata). Journal of Helminthology 45: 51–72

Generic Combinations

• Stomachus similis (Baird, 1853). —
  Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1945. Parasitic nematodes. Report of the British, Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, 1928–31 5B(2): 73-160 [84]
• Anisakis similis (Baird, 1853). —
  Baylis, H.A. 1920. On the classification of the Ascaridae. 1. The systematic value of certain characters of the alimentary canal. Parasitology 12: 253-264 [260]
• Anisakis simplex (Rudolphi, 1809). —
  Dujardin, F. 1845. Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. Paris : Libre Encycopedidique de Roret (Suites a Buffon) 654 pp. [220]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [DELPHINIDAE] Bottlenose Dolphin; Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 [DELPHINIDAE] Common Dolphin; Lagenorhynchus obscurus (J.E. Gray, 1828) [DELPHINIDAE] Dusky Dolphin; Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838) [KOGIIDAE] Pygmy Sperm Whale).

Associated Fauna References

Shamsi, S., Gasser, R. & Beveridge, I. 2012. Genetic characterization and taxonomy of species of Anisakis (Nematoda: Anisakidae) parasitic in Australian marine mammals. Invertebrate Systematics 26: 204–212 (Tursiops truncatus)

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