Species Babesia thylacis Mackerras, 1959

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Regional Maps

• Babesia thylacis Mackerras, M.J. 1959. The haematozoa of Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 7: 105-135.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842 [DASYURIDAE] Northern Quoll (blood); Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot (syn. Thylacis obesulus; blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Bangs, M.J. & Purnomo. 1996. Babesia thylacis (Apicomplexa: Babesiidae) in a northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), from Western Australia. Journal of the Helminthological Society, Washington 63: 266-268 (Dasyurus hallucatus)

Mackerras, M.J. 1959. The haematozoa of Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 7: 105-135 (Isoodon obesulus)

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