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Species Plasmodium biziurae Gilruth, Sweet & Dodd, 1910

Distribution

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Zoo Aust.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IBRA

Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus (Latham, 1790) [ANATIDAE] Black Swan (syn. Chenopsis atrata; blood); Biziura lobata (Shaw, 1796) [ANATIDAE] Musk Duck (blood); Anas (Anas) superciliosa Gmelin, 1789 [ANATIDAE] Pacific Black Duck (blood); Malacorrhynchus membranaceus (Latham, 1801) [ANATIDAE] Pink Eared Duck (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Cleland, J.B. 1915. Notes on some Australian Haematozoa. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1915: 405-406 (Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus)

Cleland, J.B. 1915. The haematozoa of Australian birds. No. 3. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39: 25-37 (Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus)

Cleland, J.B. 1922. The parasites of Australian birds. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 46: 85-118 (Biziura lobata; Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus)

Gilruth, J.A., Sweet, G. & Dodd, S. 1910. Notes on blood parasites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 23: 231-240 (Biziura lobata)

Harrigan, K.E. 1978. Parasitic diseases of birds. in Fauna Part B. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. pp. 489-536 (Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus)

Johnston, T.H. 1912. Internal parasites recorded from Australian birds. The Emu 12(2): 105-112 (Biziura lobata)

Johnston, T.H. 1916. A census of the endoparasites recorded as occurring in Queensland, arranged under their hosts. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 28: 31-79 (Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus)

Mackerras, M.J. & Mackerras, I.M. 1960. The haematozoa of Australian birds. Australian Journal of Zoology 8: 226-260 (Malacorrhynchus membranaceus; Biziura lobata; Cygnus (Chenopis) atratus; Anas (Anas) superciliosa)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
03-Dec-2014 APICOMPLEXA Levine, 1970 03-Jul-2024 MODIFIED
26-Jul-2012 03-Jul-2024 MODIFIED
24-Aug-2011 ADDED