Species Austrostrongylus minutus Johnston & Mawson, 1938

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• Austrostrongylus minutus Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1938. Some nematodes from Australian marsupials. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 187-198 [195].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC40026 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Burnett River, Eidsvold, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC40026 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Burnett River, Eidsvold, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Notamacropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] (Parasite from 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 dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] Black-striped Wallaby; Setonix brachyurus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1830) [MACROPODIDAE] Quokka).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Beveridge, I. & Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1986. New species of Austrostrongylus Chandler, 1924 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea), from Australian marsupials, with a redescription of A. minutus Johnston & Mawson, 1938, and description of a new genus, Sutarostrongylus. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 8: 145-170 [158] (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 (regard record from Setonix brachyurus as dubious)

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