Species Mackerrastrongylus peramelis (Johnston & Mawson, 1938)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Filarinema peramelis Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1938. Some nematodes from Australian marsupials. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 6: 187-198 [196].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC40027 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), West Burleigh, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC40027 (As Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), West Burleigh, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Generic Combinations

• Mackerrastrongylus peramelis (Johnston & Mawson, 1938). —
  Mawson, P.M. 1960. Nematodes belonging to the Trichostrongylidae, Subuluridae, Rhabdiasidae and Trichuridae from bandicoots. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 261-284 [272]

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bandicoot; Dasyurus hallucatus Gould, 1842 [DASYURIDAE] Northern Quoll).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

Durette-Desset, M.C. & Cassone, J. 1980. Mackerrastrongylus Mawson, 1960, et Sprattellus n. gen. (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea) parasites de Perameloidea et de Dasyuroidea (marsupiaux australiens). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 4: 943-954 (redescription and correction of nomenclature of type host)

Mawson, P.M. 1960. Nematodes belonging to the Trichostrongylidae, Subuluridae, Rhabdiasidae and Trichuridae from bandicoots. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 261-284 (additional locality records)

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