Species Paraustrostrongylus trichosuri Mawson, 1973

Museums

Regional Maps

• Paraustrostrongylus trichosuri Mawson, P.M. 1973. Amidostomatinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Australian marsupials and monotremes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 257-279 [267].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41407 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), D'Aiguillar and Camp Mountain, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41407 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), D'Aiguillar and Camp Mountain, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common Brushtail Possum; Trichosurus cunninghami Lindenmayer, Dubach & Viggers, 2002 [PHALANGERIDAE] Mountain Brushtail Possum; Trichosurus caninus (Ogilby, 1836) [PHALANGERIDAE] Mountain Brushtail Possum).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1979. Compléments morphologiques à l'étude des genres Austrostrongylus Chandler, 1924, et Paraustrostrongylus Mawson, 1973 (Nematoda, Trichostrongylidae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 1: 1023-1030 (additional morphological details)

Presidente, P.J.A. 1984. Parasites and diseases of brushtail possums (Trichosurus spp.): occurrence and significance. pp. 171-190 in Smith, A. & Hume, I. (eds). Possums and Gliders. Sydney : Surrey Beatty & Sons, Australian Mammal Society 598 pp.

Viggers, K.L. & Spratt, D.M. 1995. The parasites recorded from Trichosurus species (Marsupialia, Phalangeridae). Wildlife Research 22: 311-332

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