Species Polychromophilus melanipherus Dionisi, 1899

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• Polychromophilus melanipherus Dionisi, A. 1899. La malaria di alcune specie di pipistrelli. Atti Della Societa Per Gli Studi Della Malaria 1: 133-173.

  Secondary source:

   Landau, I., Rosin, G., Miltgen, F., Hugot, J.P., Leger, N., Beveridge, I. & Baccam, D. 1980. Sur le genre Polychromophilus (Haemoproteidae, parasite de Microchiropteres). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 55: 13-32.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), 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), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Miniopterus blepotis (Temminck, 1840) [VESPERTILIONIDAE] Bent-wing Bat (blood); Miniopterus schreibersii (Kuhl, 1817) [MINIOPTERIDAE] Bent-wing Bat (blood); Vespadelus pumilis (Gray, 1841) [VESPERTILIONIDAE] Eastern Forest Bat (blood); Hipposideros semoni Matschie, 1903 [HIPPOSIDERIDAE] Greater Wart-nosed Horseshoe-bat (blood); Eptesicus pumilus (Gray, 1841) [VESPERTILIONIDAE] Little Cave Eptesicus (blood); Nyctophilus bifax Thomas, 1915 [VESPERTILIONIDAE] North Queensland Long-eared Bat (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Dew, B.B. & McMillan, B. 1970. Seasonal variation of Polychromophilus melanipherus (Sporozoa: Haemoproteidae) in the bent-winged bat Miniopterus schreibersii (Chiroptera) in New South Wales. Parasitology 61: 161-166 (Eptesicus pumilus; Miniopterus schreibersii)

Garnham, P.C.C. 1966. Malaria Parasites and other Haemosporidia. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publishers 1114 pp. (Nyctophilus bifax; Hipposideros semoni; Vespadelus pumilis; Miniopterus blepotis)

Landau, I., Rosin, G., Miltgen, F., Hugot, J.P., Leger, N., Beveridge, I. & Baccam, D. 1980. Sur le genre Polychromophilus (Haemoproteidae, parasite de Microchiropteres). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 55: 13-32 (Miniopterus schreibersii)

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160 (Hipposideros semoni; Vespadelus pumilis; Miniopterus blepotis; Miniopterus schreibersii)

Mackerras, M.J. 1959. The haematozoa of Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 7: 105-135 (Nyctophilus bifax; Hipposideros semoni; Vespadelus pumilis; Miniopterus blepotis)

Wenyon, C.M. 1926. Protozoology. London : Bailliere, Tindall & Cox Pub. (Miniopterus schreibersii)

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