Species Filarinema dissimile (Wood, 1931)

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Regional Maps

• Trichostrongylus dissimilis Wood, W.A. 1931. Some new parasitic nematodes from Western Australia. Report of the Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Cambridge 1: 209-219 [216].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, WA (captive animal).

  Type host:

   Macropus robustus woodwardi Thomas, 1901 [MACROPODIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Filarinema dissimile (Wood, 1931). —
  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 [57]
• Asymmetricostrongylus dissimilis (Wood, 1931). —
  Nagaty, H.F. 1932. The genus Trichostrongylus Looss, 1905. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 26: 457-518

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 [MACROPODIDAE] Allied Rock-wallaby; Macropus robustus Gould, 1841 [MACROPODIDAE] Common Wallaroo; Macropus rufus (Desmarest, 1822) [MACROPODIDAE] Red Kangaroo; Macropus rufogriseus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Wallaby; Lagorchestes conspicillatus Gould, 1842 [MACROPODIDAE] Spectacled Hare-wallaby; Macropus fuliginosus (Desmarest, 1817) [MACROPODIDAE] Western Grey Kangaroo), parasitic.

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, redescription 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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