Species Woolleya antechini Humphery-Smith & Durette-Desset, 1981

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• Woolleya antechini Humphery-Smith, I. & Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1981. Woolleya Mawson, 1973 (Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea), genre parasite de marsupiaux australiens. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris [published 1907-1971] 3: 495-508 [499].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC42723 Vial ♂, Powelltown, Victoria.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC42724 (as Allotype) Vial ♀, Powelltown, Victoria; MNHP 794 CA; SAMA AHC42725-AHC42727 Vials 3♀, Powelltown, Victoria.

  Type host:

   Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Vic: NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Antechinus agilis Dickman, Parnaby, Crowther & King, 1998 [DASYURIDAE] Agile Antechinus; Antechinus stuartii Macleay, 1841 [DASYURIDAE] Brown Antechinus; Antechinus swainsonii (Waterhouse, 1840) [DASYURIDAE] Dusky Antechinus; Sminthopsis leucopus (Gray, 1842) [DASYURIDAE] White-footed Dunnart).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

Beveridge, I. & Barker, I.K. 1976. The parasites of Antechinus stuartii Macleay from Powelltown, Victoria, with observations on seasonal and sex-related variations in numbers of helminths. Australian Journal of Zoology 24: 265-272 (additional records)

Dickman, C.R., Parnaby, H.A., Crowther, M.S. & King, D.H. 1998. Antechinus agilis (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae), a new species from the A. stuartii complex in south-eastern Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 46: 1-26 (correction of host nomenclature)

Mawson, P.M. 1973. Amidostomatinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Australian marsupials and monotremes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 257-279 (description (as W. sprenti))

Spratt, D.M., Beveridge, I. & Walter, E.L. 1991. A catalogue of Australasian monotremes and marsupials and their recorded helminth parasites. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) Monograph Series 1: 1-105 (additional records)

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