Genus Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

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• Contracaecum Railliet, A. & Henry, A. 1912. Quelques Nematodes parasites des Reptiles. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique 5: 251-259 [256].

  Type species:

   Ascaris microcephalum Rudolphi, 1809 by original designation.
• Amphicaecum Walton, A.C. 1927. A revision of the Nematodes of the Leidy collection. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 79: 49-163 [73].
• Cerascaris Cobb, N.A. 1929. Cerascaris collare n. g. n. sp. A Nemic parasite of the Caribbean fish, Gobiomorus maculatus. Journal of Parasitology 15: 287-289 [287].
• Kathleena Leiper, R.T. & Atkinson, E.L. 1914. Helminthes of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910–1913. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1914: 222-226 [223].
• Ornitocaecum Skryabin, K.I., Schikhobalova, N.P. & Mozgovoi, A.A. 1951. Descriptive catalogue of parasitic nematodes. Moscow : Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk Vol. 2. Oxyurata and Ascaridata. 632pp. [481] [as subgenus Contracaecum (Ornitocaecum)].
• Synthetonema Kreis, H.A. 1952. Beitrage zur Kenntnis parasitischer Nematoden. X. Parasitische nematoden aus der Umge-bung der Faroer. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 114: 251-307 [265] [as subgenus Contracaecum (Synthetonema)].

Introduction

A range of unidentified Contracaecum species have been identified from birds and perciform fishes by Beumer (1983), Johnston & Mawson (1941, 1947), Mawson (1968), Mawson et al. (1986), and Roubal (1990).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Other Regions

Heard & McDonald Islands (Aust. Terr.)

General References

Beumer, J.P., Ashburner, L.D., Burbury, M.E., Jette, E. & Latham, D.J. 1983. A checklist of the Parasites of fishes from Australia and its adjacent Antarctic territories. Technical communication no 48 of the Commonwealth Institute of Parasitology. London : Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux 99 pp.

Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1941. Ascaroid nematodes from Australian birds. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 65: 110-115

Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1947. Some avian and fish nematodes chiefly from Tailem Bend, South Australia. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 8: 547-553

Mawson, P.M. 1968. Nematodes from Australian waders. Parasitology 58: 277-305

Mawson, P.M., Angel, L.M. & Edmonds, S.J. 1986. A checklist of helminths from Australian birds. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 19: 219-325

Roubal, F.R. 1990. The Parasites of the Sparid Acanthopagrus australis in Australia. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists 10(4): 110-111

Shamsi, S. 2014. Recent advances in our knowledge of Australian anisakid nematodes. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3: 178-187

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