Species Asymmetracantha tasmaniensis Mawson, 1960

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• Asymmetracantha tasmaniensis Mawson, P.M. 1960. Nematodes belonging to the Trichostrongylidae, Subuluridae, Rhabdiasidae and Trichuridae from bandicoots. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 261-284 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41460 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Dunorlan, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41460 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Dunorlan, Tasmania; SAMA AHC3334 Vial, Dunorlan, Tasmania.

  Type host:

   Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bbandicoot; Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. & Beveridge, I. 1982. Deux genres aberrants de nematodes trichostrongyloïdes parasites de marsupiaux australiens: Asymmetracantha Mawson, 1960, et Nasistrongylus n. gen. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3: 1053-1059 [dated 1981] (redescription)

Spratt, D.M., Beveridge, I. & Walter, E.L. 1991. A catalogue of Australasian monotremes and marsupials and their recorded helminth parasites. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 1: 1-105 (additional records)

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