Species Odilia brachybursa (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Longistriata brachybursa Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [805].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41327 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41327 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland; SAMA AHC3862 Vial, Innisfail, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Generic Combinations

• Odilia brachybursa (Mawson, 1961). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517

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), 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), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Camelus dromedarius Linnaeus, 1758 [CAMELIDAE] Dromedary; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Uromys caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867) [MURIDAE] Giant White-tailed Rat; Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] Grassland Melomys).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1969. Les systèmes d'arêtes cuticulaires chez les nématodes héligmosomes parasites de muridés australiens. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 44: 733-747 (additional morphological details)

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

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517

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. & Spratt, D.M. 2008. Helminth assemblages of Uromys spp. (Muridae: Hydromyinae) from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia and comparison with assemblages in Melomys spp. Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 283-291 (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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