Species Filarinema australe (Wood, 1931)

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• Trichostrongylus australis Wood, W.A. 1931. Some new parasitic nematodes from Western Australia. Report of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge 1: 209-219 [218].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, BMNH 1932.1.23.66-70 (as 'cotypes'), WA (captive animal).

  Type host:

   Macropus robustus woodwardi Thomas, 1901 [MACROPODIDAE]
• Filarinema moennigi Mawson, P.M. 1964. Some Nematoda (Strongylina and Oxyurina) from kangaroos. (Macropus spp.) from eastern Australia. Parasitology 54: 237-262 [240].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC44117 Vial ♂, Wilcannia, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC44118 (Allotype) Vial ♀, Wilcannia, New South Wales.

  Type host:

   Macropus (Osphranter) rufus (Desmarest, 1852) [MACROPODIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Filarinema australe (Wood, 1931). —
  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 [355]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Riverina (RIV), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 [MACROPODIDAE] Allied Rock-wallaby; Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] Black-striped Wallaby; Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 [MACROPODIDAE] Common Wallaroo; Onychogalea unguifera (Gould, 1841) [MACROPODIDAE] Northern Nailtail Wallaby; Macropus rufus (Desmarest, 1822) [MACROPODIDAE] Red Kangaroo; Petrogale sharmani Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Sharman's Rock-wallaby; Petrogale brachyotis (Gould, 1841) [MACROPODIDAE] Short-eared Rock-wallaby; Lagorchestes conspicillatus Gould, 1842 [MACROPODIDAE] Spectacled Hare-wallaby; Petrogale inornata Gould, 1842 [MACROPODIDAE] Unadorned Rock-wallaby).

Extra Ecological Information

In 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)

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 (redescription)

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