Species Trypanosoma lewisi (Saville-Kent, 1880)

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• Herpetomonas lewisi Saville-Kent, W. 1880 [1881]. Manual of the Infusoria, including a description of all known flagellate, ciliated, and tentaculiferous Protozoa, British and foreign, and an account of the organisation and affinities of the sponges. London Vol. I 472 pp. [published in two parts, first in 1880, second in 1881].

Generic Combinations

• Trypanosoma lewisi (Kent, 1880). —
  Laveran, M. & Mesnil, F. 1901. Recherches morphologiques et experimentales sur le trypanosome des rats (Tr. lewisi Kent). Annales de l'Institut Pasteur 15: 673-713

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), 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)

IMCRA

Timor Province (2), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Pseudomys albocinereus (Gould, 1845) [MURIDAE] Ash-grey Mouse; Rattus rattus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MURIDAE] Black Rat (blood, skin (+PCR)); Rattus norvegicus (Berkenhout, 1769) [MURIDAE] Brown Rat (syn. Rattus decumanus Pallus, 1778, Mus decumanus; blood); Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat (blood); Rattus macleari (Thomas, 1887) [MURIDAE] Christmas Island Rat ([now extinct] = Mus macleari; skin (PCR)); Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 [MURIDAE] House Mouse (syn. M. domesticus; blood); Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat (blood); Rattus sp. [MURIDAE] (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Bancroft T.L. 1888. Note on Haematomonas in rats' blood. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 5: 31-32 (Rattus sp.)

Callow, L.L. 1984. Animal Health in Australia. Volume 5. Protozoal and Rickettsial Diseases. Canberra : Aust. Govt. Publ. Service. (Rattus rattus)

Cleland, J.B. 1908. Some remarks on the natural history and diseases of the rats of Perth and Fremantle, Western Australia. Report of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1908: 516-520 (Rattus sp.)

Fielding, J.W. 1928. Observations on rodents and their parasites. Journal of the Royal Society of New South Wales 61: 115-134 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Hoare, C.A. 1972. The Trypanosomes of Mammals. A Zoological Monograph. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publishers. (Rattus fuscipes; Hydromys chrysogaster)

Johnston, T.H. 1909. Notes on some Australian parasites. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 20: 581-584 (Rattus norvegicus; Mus musculus; Rattus rattus)

Johnston, T.H. 1910. Notes on some Australian parasites. Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales 20: 349-353 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

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 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus; Rattus sp.)

Johnston, T.H. 1918. Notes on certain entozoa of rats and mice, together with a catalogue of the internal parasites recorded as occurring in rodents in Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 30: 53-78 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus; Rattus sp.)

Johnston, T.H. & Cleland, J.B. 1909. Notes on some parasitic protozoa. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 34: 500-513 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Johnston, T.H. & Cleland, J.B. 1910. Protozoal infections. Report of the Government Bureau of Microbiology 1909: 31-46 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Ladds, P. 2009. Pathology of Australian Native Wildlife. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 640 pp. (Rattus fuscipes; Hydromys chrysogaster)

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 (Rattus fuscipes; Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus; Rattus sp.)

Mackerras, M.J. 1959. The haematozoa of Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 7: 105-135 (Rattus fuscipes; Hydromys chrysogaster; Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Pound, C.J. 1905. On Trypanosoma and their presence in the blood of Brisbane rats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 19: 33-38 (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Seddon, H.R. 1952. Diseases of domestic animals in Australia. Part 4. Protozoan and viral diseases. Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health, Service Publication (Division of Veterinary Hygeine) Vol. No. 8. (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

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. (Rattus norvegicus; Rattus rattus)

Thompson, C.K., Godfrey, S.S. & Thompson, R.C.A. 2014. Trypanosomes of Australian mammals: A review. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 3: 57–66 (Pseudomys albocinereus)

Wyatt, K.B., Campos, P.F., Gilbert, M.T.P., Kolokotronis, S.-O., Hynes, W.H., DeSalle, R., Daszak, P., MacPhee, R.D.E. & Greenwood, A.D. 2008. Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease. PLoS ONE (Public Library of Science) 3: 1-9 (Rattus macleari; Rattus rattus)

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