Genus Porrocaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

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

  Type species:

   Ascaris crassa Deslongchamps, 1824 (= Porrocaecum crassum (Deslongchamps, 1824) Railliet & Henry, 1912) by original designation.
• Belanisakis Maplestone, P.A. 1932. Parasitic Nematodes obtained from animals dying in the Calcutta Zoological Gardens. Parts 9-11. Records of the Indian Museum, Calcutta 34: 229-261 [233].
• Laymanicaecum 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. [524].

Introduction

Various authors have reported unidentified Porrocaecum species from Australian birds (Johnston & Mawson, 1941; Mawson et al., 1986) and fishes (Beumer et al., 1983).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania

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. [24]

Johnston, T.H. & Mawson, P.M. 1941. Some nematode parasites of Australian birds. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 66(3-4): 250-256 [250]

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 [297]

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