Species Filarinema asymmetricus (Cameron, 1926)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trichostrongylus asymmetricus Cameron, T.W.M. 1926. On a new species of Trichostrongyle worm from the Bennett's wallaby. Journal of Helminthology 4: 23-26 [24].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1926.10.12.1-5, 1998.12.2. 59-83, not stated.

  Type host:

   Macropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [Macropodidae]
• Filarinema woodi Cassone, J. & Baccam, D. 1985. Le genre Filarinema Mönnig, 1929 (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea), parasite de marsupiaux australiens. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 7 2: 349-382 [358].

Generic Combinations

• Asymmetricostrongylus asymmetricus (Cameron, 1926). —
  Nagaty, H.F. 1932. The genus Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 26: 457-518 [458]
• Filarinema asymmetricus (Cameron, 1926). —
  Cassone, J. & Baccam, D. 1985. Le genre Filarinema Mönnig, 1929 (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea), parasite de marsupiaux australiens. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 7 2: 349-382 [353]

Distribution

States

Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, Tas, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), King (KIN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby; Macropus parryi (Bennett, 1835) [MACROPODIDAE] Whiptail Wallaby; Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 [MACROPODIDAE] Common Wallaroo; Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) [POTOROIDAE] Long-nosed Potoroo; Macropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Wallaby).

Extra Ecological Information

Pyloric antrum.

General References

Beveridge, I. & Spratt, D.M. 1988. A redescription of Filarinema dissimile (Wood, 1931), with new records of other species of Filarinema Moennig, 1929 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from macropodid marsupials. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 112: 57-61 (host records and correction of orthography)

Spratt, D.M., Beveridge, I. & Walter, E.L. 1991. A catalogue of Australasian monotremes and marsupials and their recorded helminth parasites. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 1: 1-105 (host records)

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