Species Nippostrongylus typicus (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austroheligmonema typicum Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [815].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41329 VIal ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Mt Nebo, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41329 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Mt Nebo, Queensland; SAMA AHC3851 Vial, Mt Nebo, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Rattus fuscipes assimilis (Gould, 1858) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Generic Combinations

• Nippostrongylus typicus (Mawson, 1961). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1971. Essai de classification des Nématodes Héligmosomes. Corrélations avec la paléobigéographie des hôtes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 64: 1-126

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat (= Rattus assimilis); Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) [MURIDAE] Canefield Rat; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Rattus burtoni Ramsay, 1887 [MURIDAE] (grassland Melomys)).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1971. Essai de classification des Nématodes Héligmosomes. Corrélations avec la paléobigéographie des hôtes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 64: 1-126

Smales, L.R. 1992. A survey of the helminths of Rattus sordidus, the canefield rat, together with a description of Ancistronema coronatum n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Chabertiidae). Systematic Parasitology 22: 73-80 (additional records)

Smales, L.R., Heinrich, B. & McKillup, S.C. 2004. The helminth parasites of Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae: Hydromyinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 65-80 (additional records)

Smales L.R. 2005. Helminth parasites of the grassland melomys (Muridae: Hydromyinae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 53: 369-374 (additional records)

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