Species Austrostrongylus chandleri Mawson, 1973

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• Austrostrongylus chandleri Mawson, P.M. 1973. Amidostomatinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Australian marsupials and monotremes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 257-279 [262].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41516 Vial♂ (Holotype and paratype ♀ with same Reg. No. and in same vial), Logan Village, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC5460, AHC41516 Vials, Logan Village, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Notamacropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] (Parasite from small intestine)

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Macropus giganteus Shaw, 1790 [MACROPODIDAE] Eastern Grey Kangaroo; Macropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Wallaby; Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1979. Compléments morphologiques à l'étude des genres Austrostrongylus Chandler, 1924, et Paraustrostrongylus Mawson, 1973 (Nematoda, Trichostrongylidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 1: 1023-1030 (additional morphological details)

Durette-Desset, M.C. & Beveridge, I. 2012. Redescriptions and descriptions of new species of Austrostrongylus Chandler, 1924 (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina), from Australian marsupials with a comparative study of features of the synlophe. Zootaxa 3512: 1-41 [9-13, figs 4-6] (redescription)

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