Species Tetrabothriostrongylus mackerrasae Mawson, 1960

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• Tetrabothriostrongylus mackerrasae Mawson, P.M. 1960. Two new species of trichostrongyle nematodes from the Australian pouched mouse, Phascogale flavipes (Waterhouse). Parasitology 50: 425-429 [427].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41458 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41458 Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland; SAMA AHC3340 Vial, Innisfail, Queensland; QM GL 14019, 14213.

  Type host:

   Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838) [DASYURIDAE]

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), 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 Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Antechinus agilis Dickman, Parnaby, Crowther & King, 1998 [DASYURIDAE] Agile Antechinus; Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] Brown Antechinus; Sminthopsis murina (Waterhouse, 1838) [DASYURIDAE] Common Dunnart; Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse, 1840) [DASYURIDAE] Dusky Antechinus; Cercartetus nanus (Desmarest, 1818) [BURRAMYIDAE] Eastern Pygmy Possum; Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot; Sminthopsis virginiae (Tarragon, 1847) [DASYURIDAE] Red-cheeked Dunnart; Isoodon obesulus (Shaw, 1797) [PERAMELIDAE] Southern Brown Bandicoot; Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr, 1792) [DASYURIDAE] Spotted-tailed Quoll; Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray, 1842) [DASYURIDAE] White-footed Dunnart; Antechinus flavipes (Waterhouse, 1838) [DASYURIDAE] Yellow-footed Antechinus).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

Associated Fauna References

Beveridge, I. & Barker, I.K. 1976. The parasites of Antechinus stuartii Macleay from Powelltown, Victoria, with observations on seasonal and sex-related variations in numbers of helminths. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 265-272 (Antechinus agilis)

General References

Dickman, C.R., Parnaby, H.A., Crowther, M.S. & King, D.H. 1998. Antechinus agilis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), a new species from the A. stuartii complex in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 1-26 (correction of host name)

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1979. Nouvelles données morphologiques sur les genres Dromaeostrongylus Lubimov, 1933 et Tetrabothriostrongylus Mawson, 1960 (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidae). Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris [published 1895-1906] 1: 1015-1021 (redescription and additional records)

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