Species Trypanosoma pteropi Breinl, 1913

Museums

Regional Maps

• Trypanosoma pteropi Breinl, A. 1913. Parasitic protozoa encountered in the blood of Australian native animals. Report of the Australian Instute of Tropical Medicine 1911(April, 1913): 30-38.

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Pteropus gouldii Peters, 1867 [PTEROPODIDAE] Black Flying-fox (blood); Pteropus alecto Temminck, 1837 [PTEROPODIDAE] Black Flying-fox; Pteropus spp. [PTEROPODIDAE] (blood)).

Associated Fauna References

Breinl, A. 1913. Parasitic protozoa encountered in the blood of Australian native animals. Report of the Australian Instute of Tropical Medicine 1911(April, 1913): 30-38 (Pteropus gouldii)

Hoare, C.A. 1972. The Trypanosomes of Mammals. A Zoological Monograph. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publishers. (Pteropus gouldii)

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 (Pteropus gouldii)

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 (Pteropus gouldii)

Mackerras, M.J. 1959. The haematozoa of Australian mammals. Australian Journal of Zoology 7: 105-135 (Pteropus gouldii)

Molyneux, D.H. 1991. Trypanosomes of bats. pp. 195-223 in Kreier, J.P. & Baker, J.R. (eds). Parasitic Protozoa. San Diego : Academic Press 2. (Pteropus gouldii)

Prociv, P. 1987. Parasites of Australian flying-foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae). Australian Mammalogy 10: 107-110 (Pteropus spp.)

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 (Pteropus alecto)

History of changes