Species Armillifer australis Heymons, 1935
- Armillifer moniliformis australis Heymons, R. 1935. Pentastomida. In, Bronns, H.G. (ed.). Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Fünfter Band. IV Abteilung, 1. Buch. Leipzig : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. pp. 1–268. [242] (Heymons [1935] redescribed this taxon as 'Armillifer moniliformis australis Heymons 1932' referring to the specimens he had earlier [1932] also described and figured but without naming. The later date is therefore the publication date).
Type data:
Syntype(s) ZMH 10 males, 6 females, Queensland.Type locality references:
Weidner, H. 1959. Die Entomologischen Sammlungen des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums Hamburg. I. Teil. Pararthropoda und Chelicerata I. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut 57: 89-142 (lists types as present in ZMH).Type host:
Morelia amethistina (Schneider, 1801) [Boidae] (as Python amethystinus) - Armillifer australis Riley, J. & Self, J.T. 1981. Some observations on the taxonomy and systematics of the pentastomid genus Armillifer (Sambon, 1922) in South East Asian and Australian snakes. Systematic Parasitology 2: 171-179 [175] [subjective synonym].
Type data:
Holotype BMNH 1979.9.4.7 female, Western Australia.
Paratype(s) BMNH 1979.9.4.8-35 (part) 12 females, Western Australia; BMNH 1979.9.4.36-39 immature females, Papua New Guinea; BMNH 1979.9.4.8-35 (part) males, Western Australia; BMNH 1979.9.4.8-35 (part) immature females, Western Australia; BMNH 1979.9.4.40 males, "N. Queensland Path. Lab. London Zoo"; BMNH 1979.9.4.36-39 (part) males, Papua New Guinea.Type host:
Morelia amethistina (Schneider, 1801) [Boidae] (as Liasis amethystinus)
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Heymons, R. & Vitzthum, H.G. 1935. Beiträge zur Systematik der Pentastomiden. Zeitschrift für Parasitenkunde 8: 1-103 [85-90] (also referred to 'Armillifer monoliformis australis Heymons, 1932' but without a redescription)
- Riley, J. & Self, J.T. 1981. Some observations on the taxonomy and systematics of the pentastomid genus Armillifer (Sambon, 1922) in South East Asian and Australian snakes. Systematic Parasitology 2: 171-179 [177] (The authors stated that their new species Amillifer australis was “clearly the same” as A. moniliformis australis Heymons, thereby erecting a synonym and homonym)
- Röhlig, D., Dunlop, J.A., Grau, J.H. & Friederichs, A. 2010. An annotated catalogue of the tongue worms (Pentastomida) held in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 86: 129-154 (The authors found the subspecies name Armillifer monoliformis australis Heymons, 1932 problematic as it does not occur in Heymons' (1932) papers. The problem is here solved)
- Poore, G.C.B. 2011. Taxonomic decision, http://biodiversity.org.au/afd (subjective synonymy concluded)
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Also Adelaide Zoo, SA, and Melbourne Zoo, Vic.; PNG, Indonesia
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Endoparasitic (host(s): Morelia amethistina (Schneider, 1801) [BOIDAE] Amethyst Python (in Australia); Morelia spilota (Lacépède, 1804) [BOIDAE] Carpet Python; Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot (nymph from oesophagus, Danbulla State Forest, near Atherton, Qld); Liasis olivaceus J.E. Gray, 1842 [BOIDAE] Olive Python; Morelia boeleni (Brongersma, 1953) [BOIDAE] python (in PNG, Indonesia)).
Associated Fauna References
Spratt, D.M. 2011. Unpublished list of pentastomes in Wildlife Parasitology & Pathology Collection in the Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Crace, Canberra. (Liasis olivaceus; Morelia spilota)
History of changes
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| 28-Feb-2012 | 13-Dec-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 20-Oct-2011 | 13-Dec-2024 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Apr-2011 | 12-Apr-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 12-Apr-2011 | 12-Apr-2011 | MOVED | ||
| 31-Mar-2011 | ADDED |