Species Odilia emanuelae (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heligmonoides emanuelae Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [809].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41332 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41332 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland; SAMA AHC3855 Vial, Innisfail, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine. Originally described as Rattus conatus)

Generic Combinations

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

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat (= R. Assimilis); Rattus sordidus (Gould, 1858) [MURIDAE] Canefield Rat (= Rattus Conatus); Rattus leucopus (J.E. Gray, 1867) [MURIDAE] Cape York Rat; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; 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. 2005. A redescription of Odilia emanuelae (Nematoda: Trichostrongylina: Heligmonellidae) from Australian rodents with a key and comments on the genus Odilia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 129: 59-64

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

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

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