Species Cercopithifilaria johnstoni (Mackerras, 1954)

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• Dipetalonema johnstoni Mackerras, M.J. 1954. Two new species of Dipetalonema (Nematoda: Filarioidea) from Australian marsupials. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 64: 51-57 [51].

  Type host:

   Isoodon macrourus
• Dipetalonema lutreoli Mackerras, M.J. 1962. Filarial parasites (Nematoda : Filarioidea) of Australian animals. Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 400-457 [406].

  Type data:

   Paratype(s) SAMA AHC3993 Vial, West Burleigh, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Rattus lutreolus (Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from subcutaneous tissue)

Generic Combinations

• Cercopithifilaria johnstoni (Mackerras, 1954). —
  Bain, O., Baker, M. & Chabaud, A.G. 1982. Nouvelles données sur la lignée Dipetalonema (Filarioidea; Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 57: 593-620 [“published” as 1982 but not issued until 1983]
• Breinlia johnstoni (Mackerras, 1954). —
  Yeh, L.S. 1957. On a filarial parasite Deraiophoronema freitaslenti n. sp. from the giant anteater, Myrmecophagus tridactyla from British Guiana, and a proposed reclassification of Dipetalonema and related genera. Parasitology 47(1/2): 196-205 [202]

Distribution

States

Queensland

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] Brown Antechinus; Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common Brushtail Possum; Perameles gunnii Gray, 1838 [PERAMELIDAE] Eastern Barred Bandicoot; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Petauroides volans (Kerr, 1792) [PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE] Greater Glider; Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw, 1799) [ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE] Platypus; Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot; Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] Swamp Rat; Sarcophilus harrisii (Boitard, 1841) [DASYURIDAE] Tasmanian Devil; Isoodon macrourus [PERAMELIDAE]; Uromys caudmaculatus [MURIDAE]).

Extra Ecological Information

Parasite from subcutaneous connective tissue.

Associated Fauna References

Spratt, D.M. 2011. New records of filarioid nematodes (Nematoda: Filarioidea) parasitic in Australasian monotremes, marsupials and murids, with descriptions of nine new species. Zootaxa 2860: 1-61 (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)

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