Species Wallabicestus ualabati (Beveridge, 2009)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Progamotaenia ualabati Beveridge, I. 2009. A re-description of Progamotaenia ewersi (Schmidt, 1975) (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) from Wallabies and Kangaroos (Macropodidae) with the description of a new species, Progamotaenia ualabati n. sp. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 133(1): 1-17 [13].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC29480 Slide, Dartmouth, Victoria [36°32'S 147°30'E].
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC20887 Slides, Dartmouth, Victoria [36°32'S 147°30'E].

  Type host:

   Wallabia bicolor (Desnarest, 1804) [MACROPIDAE] (in small intestine)

Generic Combinations

• Wallabicestus ualabati (Beveridge, 2009). —
  Hardman, L.M., Haukisalmi, V. & Beveridge I. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the anoplocephaline cestodes of Australasian marsupials and resurrection of the genus Wallabicestus Schmidt, 1975. Systematic Parasitology 82: 49-63 [61]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Macropus parma Waterhouse, 1845 [MACROPODIDAE] Parma Wallaby (definitive host); Wallabia bicolor (Desmarest, 1804) [MACROPODIDAE] Swamp Wallaby (definitive host)).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

Hardman, L.M., Haukisalmi, V. & Beveridge I. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the anoplocephaline cestodes of Australasian marsupials and resurrection of the genus Wallabicestus Schmidt, 1975. Systematic Parasitology 82: 49-63

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