Species Chisholmia bainae (Beveridge & Durette-Desset, 1992)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Odilia bainae Beveridge, I. & Durette-Desset M.-C. 1992. The morphology of Nippostrongylus magnus, a parasite of native Australian rodents. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 116: 109-115 [123].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC44181 Vial ♂, Blackwood, Victoria [37°29'S, 144°19'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC22880 (as Allotype) Vial ♀, Blackwood, Victoria [37°29'S, 144°19'E]; SAMA AHC22879, AHC22881 Vials 12♂10♀, Blackwood, Victoria [37°29'S, 144°19'E].

  Type host:

   Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1938) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from duodenum)

Generic Combinations

• Chisholmia bainae (Beveridge & Durette-Desset, 1992). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. & Digiani, M.C. 2015. Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973. Parasite 22: 1-12 [8]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Mastacomys fuscus Thomas, 1882 [MURIDAE] Broad-toothed Rat; Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] Grassland Melomys; Pseudomys higginsi (Trouessart, 1897) [MURIDAE] Long-tailed Mouse; Rattus lutreolus (J.E. Gray, 1841) [MURIDAE] Swamp Rat).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Gibbons, L.M. & Spratt, D.M. 1995. Two new species of Odilia (Nematoda: Heligmonellidae) from Australian rodents, with comments on Odilia bainae Beveridge & Durette-Desset. Systematic Parasitology 31: 67-79 (additional morphological details and records)

Obendorf, D.L. 1979. The helminth parasites of Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse) from Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 867-879

Smales, L.R., Heinrich, B. & McKillup, S.C. 2004. The helminth parasites of Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae: Hydromyinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 65-80

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