Genus Eucoleus Dujardin, 1845

Museums

Regional Maps

• Eucoleus Dujardin, F. 1845. Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. Paris : Libre Encycopedidique de Roret (Suites a Buffon) 654 pp. [23].

  Type species:

   Eucolius aerophilus (Creplin, 1839) Dujardin, 1845 by original designation.
• Ritaklossia Freitas, J.F.T. 1959. Esboco de novo arranjo sistematico para os Nematodeos Capilariineos (Trichuroidea). Atas da Sociedade de Biologia do Rio de Janeiro 3(5): 4-6 [6].

Introduction

Spratt (2006) identified an additional three species of Eucoleus, one from each of Perameles gunnii (Eastern Barred Bandicoot), Antechinus minimus (Swamp Antechinus) and Isoodon macrourus (Northern Brown Bandicoot), however insufficient material prevented a full description of these species. Oakwood & Spratt (2000) recorded an unidentified species from the small intestine of Dasyurus hallucatus (Northern Quoll).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania

General References

Oakwood, M. & Spratt, D.M. 2000. Parasites of the northern quoll, Dasyurus hallucatus (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae) in tropical savanna, Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Zoology 48: 79-90 [82]

Spratt, D.M. 2006. Description of capillariid nematodes (Trichinelloidea: Capillariidae) parasitic in Australian marsupials and rodents. Zootaxa 1348: 1-82 [53-56]

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