Species Waddycephalus longicauda Riley & Self, 1981
- Waddycephalus longicauda Riley, J. & Self, J.T. 1981. A redescription of Waddycephalus teretiusculus (Baird, 1862) Sambon, 1922 and a revision of the taxonomy of the genus Waddycephalus (Sambon, 1922), pentastomid parasites of Asian, Australian and Indonesian snakes, with descriptions of eight new species. Systematic Parasitology 3: 243-257 [248].
Type data:
Holotype AMNH 188 female, Laura, N Qld.
Paratype(s) AMNH 188 4 females, 6 males, collected with holotype.Type host:
Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864) [Boidae]
Distribution
States
Queensland, South Australia, Victoria
Extra Distribution Information
Australian Endemic.
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Endoparasitic (host(s): Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864) [BOIDAE] Black-headed Python (in Qld); Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) [ELAPIDAE] Common Brown Snake (at Walpeup Mallee Research Station, Vic.); Pseudonaja nuchalis Günther, 1858 [ELAPIDAE] Northern Brown Snake (S end of Lake Puntawoloma, SA); Demansia psammophis (Schlegel, 1837) [ELAPIDAE] Yellow-faced Whip Snake (Brisbane, Qld AMNH 173; Moggill, Brisbane, Qld QM); Demansia sp. [ELAPIDAE] (from Indooroopilly, Qld AMNH 187)).
Associated Fauna References
Spratt, D.M. 2011. Unpublished list of pentastomes in Wildlife Parasitology & Pathology Collection in the Australian National Wildlife Collection, CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Crace, Canberra. (Pseudonaja textilis)
History of changes
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