Species Contracaecum eudyptulae Johnston & Mawson, 1942

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• Contracaecum eudyptulae Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1942. Some new and known Australian parasitic nematodes. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 67: 90-94 [93].

  Type data:

   
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC1697, AHC1709 Vials, Woolongong, New South Wales;
  Status unknown, SAMA AHC41294 Vial (Labelled as "type material".), Various places on the Australian Coast, SA, TAS, VIC, WA.

  Type host:

   Eudyptula minor (Forstee, 1781) [SPHENISCIDAE] (Parasite from stomach)

Introduction

Resdescription and "… genetic characterisation of internal transcribed spacers …" provided by Shamsi et al. (2009).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Eudyptula minor (J.R. Forster, 1781) [SPHENISCIDAE] Little Penguin).

General References

Shamsi, S. 2014. Recent advances in our knowledge of Australian anisakid nematodes. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3: 178-187

Shamsi, S., Norman, R., Gasser, R. & Beveridge, I. 2009. Redescription and genetic characterization of selected Contracaecum spp. (Nematoda: Anisakidae) from various hosts in Australia. Parasitology Research 104: 1507–1525

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