Species Globocephaloides wallabiae Johnston & Mawson, 1939

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• Globocephaloides wallabiae Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1939. Strongyle nematodes from Queensland marsupials. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 63: 121-148 [147].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41217 Vial, Eidsvold, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Notamacropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)
• Globocephaloides thetidis Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1939. Strongylate nematodes from marsupials in New South Wales. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 513-536 [533].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41218 Vial ♂, New England, New South Wales.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41285 (as Allotype) Vial ♀, Milson Island, Hawkesbury River, New South Wales.

  Type host:

   Thylogale thetis (Lesson, 1828) [MACROPODIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Fazenda, I., Gasser, R.B., Carvalho. L. & Beveridge, I. 2010. Resurrection and redescription of Globocephaloides wallabiae Johnston et Mawson, 1939 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from macropodid marsupials in north-eastern Australia. Acta Parasitologica 55: 138-143 [142]

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): Petrogale assimilis Ramsay, 1877 [MACROPODIDAE] Allied Rock-wallaby; Macropus dorsalis (Gray, 1837) [MACROPODIDAE] Black-striped Wallaby; Zyzomys woodwardi (Thomas, 1909) [MURIDAE] Kimberley Rock-rat; Petrogale mareeba Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Mareeba Rock Wallaby; Thylogale thetis (Lesson, 1827) [MACROPODIDAE] Red-necked Pademelon (Beveridge et al. (1984) believe this is a host misidentification)).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Beveridge, I., Speare, R. & Johnson, P.M. 1984. New records of Globocephaloidinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Macropodidae in north Queensland. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 108: 197-201 (Thylogale thetis is thought to be a host misidentification)

Fazenda, I., Gasser, R.B., Carvalho. L. & Beveridge, I. 2010. Resurrection and redescription of Globocephaloides wallabiae Johnston et Mawson, 1939 (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from macropodid marsupials in north-eastern Australia. Acta Parasitologica 55: 138-143 (redescription)

Fazenda, I.P, Beveridge, I., Chilton, N.B., Jex, A.R., Pangasa, A., Campbell, B.E., Huby-Chilton, F., Carvalho, L. & Gasser, R.B. 2009. Analysis of genetic variation in Globocephaloides populations from macropodid marsupials using a mutation scanning-based approach. Electrophoresis 30: 2758-2764 (molecular study defining species)

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