Species Heterodoxus murrayi Clay, 1981

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• Heterodoxus murrayi Clay, T. 1981. A report on a collection of lice (Boopidae: Phthiraptera) on Petrogale (rock wallabies). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 105: 65-78 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANIC RW100 ♂, 14 km N of Coen, QLD.

  Type host:

   Petrogale coenensis Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] (see Barker (1991) and Eldridge & Close (1992) for correction and update of identity of type host)

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), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Ectoparasitic (host(s): Petrogale coenensis Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Cape York Rock-wallaby; Petrogale godmani Thomas, 1923 [MACROPODIDAE] Godman’s Rock-wallaby; Petrogale mareeba Eldridge & Close, 1992 [MACROPODIDAE] Mareeba Rock Wallaby), sanguinivore.

General References

Barker, S.C. 1991. Evolution of host-parasite associations among species of lice and rock-wallabies: coevolution? (J.F.A. Sprent Prize Lecture, August 1990). International Journal for Parasitology 21: 497-501 (evolution of host associations)

Barker, S.C. 1991. Phylogeny of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies (Marsupialia: Petrogale). Systematic Parasitology 19: 17-24 (phylogeny-morphological)

Barker, S.C. 1991. Taxonomic review of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies with the description of three new species. Systematic Parasitology 19: 1-16 (taxonomy)

Barker, S.C., Briscoe, D.A., Close, R.L. & Dallas, P. 1991. Genetic variation in the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group (Phthiraptera): a test of Price's model of parasite evolution. International Journal for Parasitology 21: 555-563 (genetics)

Barker, S.C., Briscoe, D.A. & Close, R.L. 1992. Phylogeny inferred from allozymes in the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group of species (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 40: 411-422 (phylogeny-molecular)

Barker, S.C. & Close, R.L. 1990. Zoogeography and host associations of the Heterodoxus octoseriatus group and H. ampullatus (Phthiraptera: Boopiidae) from rock-wallabies (Marsupialia: Petrogale). International Journal for Parasitology 20: 1081-1087 (zoogeography and host associations)

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