Genus Theileria Bettencourt, França & Borges, 1907

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• Theileria Bettencourt, A., França, C. & Borges, J. 1907. Un cas de piroplasmose bacilliforme chez le daim. Arquivos do Instituto Bacteriologico Cámara Pestana 1: 341.

  Type species:

   Theileria parva Bettencourt, França & Borges, 1907 by original designation.

Introduction

Unidentified species recorded from eastern Australia.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Haemaphysalis bancrofti Nuttall & Warburton, 1915 [IXODIDAE] Wallaby Tick; Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, 1901 [IXODIDAE] Bush Tick, NZ Cattle Tick; Isoodon macrourus (Gould, 1842) [PERAMELIDAE] Northern Brown Bandicoot (blood); Ornithorhynchus anatinus (Shaw & Nodder, 1799) [ORNITHORHYNCHIDAE] Platypus (blood); Perameles nasuta Geoffroy, 1804 [PERAMELIDAE] Long-nosed Bandicoot (blood); Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) [POTOROIDAE] Long-nosed Potoroo (= P. gilberti; blood)).

Extra Ecological Information

Unidentified species of Theileria have been found in the listed parasite hosts.

General References

Mackerras, I.M., Mackerras, M.J. & Sandars, D.F. 1953. Parasites of the bandicoot, Isoodon obesulus. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 63: 61-63

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

Munday, B.L. 1978. Marsupial disease. in Fauna Part B. Post Graduate Committee in Veterinary Science: University of Sydney. pp. 335-385

Munday, B.L. 1988. Marsupial diseases. pp. 299-365 in Anon. (ed.). Australian Wildlife. The John Keep refresher course for veterinarians. Sydney : Postgraduate Committee in Veterinary Science. University of Sydney.

Riek, R.F. 1982. Epidemiology and transmission of Theileria sp. of cattle in Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal 59: 89-92

Seddon, H.R. & Albiston, H.E. 1966. Diseases of domestic animals in Australia. Part 4. Protozoan and virus diseases. Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Division of Veterinary Hygeine) Vol. No. 8 2.

Speare, R., Donovan, J.A., Thomas, A.D. & Speare, P.J. 1989. Diseases of free-ranging Macropodoidea. pp. 705-734 in Grigg, G., Jarman, P. & Hume, I. (eds). Kangaroos, Wallabies and Rat-Kangaroos. Sydney : Australian Mammal Society and Surrey Beatty 835 pp.

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