Species Equilophos polyrhabdote (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Longistriata polyrhabdote Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [807].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41325 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype with same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Mt Glorious, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41325 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype with same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Mt Glorious, Queensland; SAMA AHC3854 Vial, Mt Glorious, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1838) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Generic Combinations

• Odilia polyrhabdote (Mawson, 1961). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517
• Equilophos polyrhabdote (Mawson, 1961). —
  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 [9]

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): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat (= R. Assimilis); Bos taurus Linnaeus, 1758 [BOVIDAE] European Cattle; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys).

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1971. Essai de classification des Nématodes Héligmosomes. Corrélations avec la paléobigéographie des hôtes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 64: 1-126 (redesignation)

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517

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 (additional records)

History of changes