Genus Haemogregarina Danilewsky, 1885
- Haemogregarina Danilewsky, W.H. 1885. Die Hämatozoën der Kaltblüter. Archiv für Mikroskopische Anatomie 24: 588-598 [589, 597].
Introduction
Unidentified species recorded from most Australian states.
Distribution
States
New South Wales
IBRA
Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)
IMCRA
Cape Province (20), Northern Shelf Province (25), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Parasitic (host(s): Acanthophis antarticus (Shaw & Nodder, 1802) [ELAPIDAE] Common Death Adder (blood); Amphibolurus caudicinctus (Günther, 1875) [AGAMIDAE] Ring-tailed Dragon (blood); Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864) [BOIDAE] Black-headed Python (blood); Boiga irregularis (Merrem, 1802) [COLUBRIDAE] Brown Tree Snake (blood); Bothrochilus childreni (Gray, 1842) [BOIDAE] Children’s Python (blood); Bothrochilus fuscus (Peters, 1873) [BOIDAE] Water Python (= Liasis fuscus; blood); Bothrochilus olivaceus (Gray, 1842) [BOIDAE] Olive Python (blood); Cephalopholis boenak (Bloch, 1790) [SERRANIDAE] Brown-Barred Rockcod, Chocolate Hind (eucocytes); Lygosoma taeniolatum White, ex Shaw, 1790 [SCINCIDAE] Copper-tailed Skink (blood); Phyllurus platurus (White, 1790) [GEKKONIDAE] Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko (blood); Pomacentrus melanochir Russell et al., 1974 [POMACENTRIDAE] White-tailed Damsel (Note: P. melanochir not recorded from Australian region, probable mis-identification of P. chrysurus (Cuvier, 1830); blood); Pseudechis australis (Gray, 1842) [ELAPIDAE] Mulga Snake, King Brown Snake (blood); Pseudocheirus peregrinus (Boddaert, 1785) [PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE] Common Ringtail Possum (blood); Styporhynchus mairii (Gray, 1841) [COLUBRIDAE] Keelback Snake, Freshwater Snake (= Amphiesma mairii, Tropidonophis mairii; blood); Acanthophis praelongus Ramsay, 1877 [ELAPIDAE] Northern Death Adder (blood); Boiga fusca (Gray, 1842) [COLUBRIDAE] Brown Tree Snake (blood); Demansia psammophis (Schlegel, 1837) [ELAPIDAE] Yellow-faced Whip Snake, Spinifex Snake (blood); Gehyra robusta King, 1983 [GEKKONIDAE] Robust Dtella (blood); Heteronotia binoei (Gray, 1845) [GEKKONIDAE] Bynoe’s Gecko (blood); Lialis burtonis Gray, 1835 [PYGOPODIDAE] Burton’s Snake-lizard (blood); Morelia spilotes (Lacepede, 1804) [BOIDAE] Carpet & Diamond Pythons (= Morelia spilota; blood); Nephrurus wheeleri Loveridge, 1932 [GEKKONIDAE] Wheeler’s Knobtail Gecko (blood); Oedura tyroni De Vis, 1884 [GEKKONIDAE] Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko (blood); Physignathus lesueurii (Gray, 1831) [AGAMIDAE] Eastern Water Dragon (blood); Pseudechis porphyriacus (Shaw, 1794) [ELAPIDAE] Red-bellied Black Snake (blood); Pseudocheirus herbertensis (Collett, 1884) [PETAURIDAE] Herbert River Ringtail Possum (blood); Sphenomorphus quoyii (Dumeril & Bibron, 1839) [SCINCIDAE] Eastern Water Skink (= Lygosoma quoyii, Hinulia quoyii, = Eulamprus quoyii; blood (PCR)); Stegonotus cucullatus (Dumeril, Bibron & Dumeril, 1854) [COLUBRIDAE] Slaty-grey Snake (blood); Carlia jarnoldae Covacevich & Ingram, 1975 [SCINCIDAE] Lined Rainbow-skink (blood); Carlia vivax (De Vis, 1884) [SCINCIDAE] Brown-flecked Carlia (blood); Chelodina expansa Gray, 1857 [CHELIDAE] Broad-shelled River Turtle, Lagoon Tortoise (blood); Gehyra variegata (Dumeril & Bibron, 1836) [GEKKONIDAE] Tree Dtella (blood); Gnathia spp [GNATHIIDAE] Isopods (larval smears); Litoria caerulea White, 1790 [HYLIDAE] Green Tree Frog (= Hyla caerulea; blood); Varanus varius (White, 1790) [VARANIDAE] Lace Monitor (blood)).
General References
Breinl, A. 1913. Parasitic protozoa encountered in the blood of Australian native animals. Report of the Australian Instute of Tropical Medicine 1911(April, 1913): 30-38
Burreson, E.M. 1989. Haematozoa of fishes from Heron I., Australia, with the description of two new species of Trypanosoma. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 15-23
Caudell, J.N., Whittier, J. & Conover, M.R. 2002. The effects of haemogregarine-like parasites on brown tree snakes (Boiga irregularis) and slatey-grey snakes (Stegonotus cucullatus) in Queensland, Australia. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation 49: 113-119
Cleland, J.B. & Johnston, T.H. 1912. Species of haemoprotozoa met with during 1910 and 1911. Report of the Government Bureau of Microbiology 1912: 74-83
Cleland, J.B. & Johnston, T.H. 1912. Tabular statements of haematozoa occurring in wild and domesticated animals in Australia. Report of the Government Bureau of Microbiology 1912: 83-88
Davies, A.J. & Johnston, M.R.L. 2000. The biology of some intraerythrocytic parasites of fishes, amphibia and reptiles. Advances in Parasitology 45: 1-109
Delvinquier, B.L.J. 1989. Occurrence of the protozoans, Lankesterella hylae and Haemogregarina sp., in the blood of the green tree frog, Litoria caerulea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 27: 267-274
Desser, S.S. 1993. The Haemogregarinidae and Lankesterellidae. pp. 247-272 in Kreier, J.P. (ed.). Parasitic Protozoa. San Diego : Academic Press Vol. 4 2.
Gilruth, J.A. 1910. Note on a haemogregarine in the blood of Varanus varius. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 36-38
Hamerton, A.E. 1933. Report on deaths occurring in the Society's Gardens during the year 1932. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1933: 451-482
Johnston, T.H. 1912. A census of Australian reptilian entozoa. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 23: 233-249
Johnston, T.H. 1916. A census of the endoparasites recorded as occurring in Queensland, arranged under their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28: 31-79
Johnston, T.H. & Cleland, J.B. 1910. The haematozoa of Australian Reptilia. No. 1. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 35: 677-685
Lester, R.J.G. & Sewell, K.B. 1989. Checklist of parasites from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef. Australian Journal of Zoology 37: 101-128
Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160
Mackerras, M.J. 1961. The haematozoa of Australian reptiles. Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 61-122
Mackerras, M.J. 1962. The life history of a Hepatozoon (Sporozoa: Adeleidea) of varanid lizards in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 10: 35-44
McFetridge, D. & Burrell, R. 1991. Some observations on the blood and intestinal parasites of snakes in South Australia. Herpetofauna 21: 25-27
O'Donoghue, P.J. 1997. Protozoan parasites of wildlife in south-east Queensland. pp. 119-136 in Tribe, A. (ed.). Proceedings of the 1997 Conference of the Australian Association of Veterinary Conservation Biologists. Brisbane : Australian Veterinary Association.
Peirce, M.A. & Adlard, R.D. 2004. Haemoparasites from clinical screening of reptiles in south-east Queensland, Australia. Veterinary Record 155: 708-709
Perkins, S.L. & Keller, A.K. 2001. Phylogeny of nuclear small subunit rRNA genes of hemogregarines amplified with specific primers. Journal of Parasitology 87: 870-876
Plimmer, H. 1915. Report on deaths in Zool. Gardens, together with a list of the blood parasites found during the year (1914). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1915: 123-130
Scott, H.H. 1927. Report on the deaths occurring in the Society's Gardens during the year 1926. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1927: 173-198
Scott, H.H. 1928. Report on deaths occurring in the Society's Garden during the year 1927. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1928: 81-119
Smit, N.J., Grutter, A.S., Adlard, R.D. & Davies, A.J. 2006. Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species. Journal of Parasitology 92: 778-788
Speare, R., Haffenden, A.T., Daniels, P.W., Thomas, A.D. & Seawright, C.D. 1984. Diseases of the Herbert River ringtail, Pseudocheirus herbertensis, and other north Queensland rainforest possums. pp. 283-302 in Smith, A.P. & Hume, I.D. (eds). Possums and Ringtails. Sydney : Australian Mammal Society.
Stehbens, W.E. & Johnston, M.R.L. 1967. The ultrastructure of a haemogregarine parasitic in Gehyra variegata (Dumeril & Bibron, 1836). Parasitology 57: 251-261
Stehbens, W.E. & Johnston, M.R.L. 1968. Cystic bodies and schizonts associated with a hamemogregarine (sporozoa) parasitic in Gehyra variegata (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Journal of Parasitology 54: 1151-1165
History of changes
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| 03-Dec-2014 | APICOMPLEXA Levine, 1970 | 10-Apr-2024 | MODIFIED | |
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| 23-Aug-2011 | ADDED |