Species Woolleya hydromyos (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Austrostrongylus hydromyos Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [822].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41333 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41333 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland; SAMA AHC3857 Vial, Innisfail, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE]

Generic Combinations

• Woolleya hydromyos (Mawson, 1961). —
  Mawson, P.M. 1973. Amidostomatinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Australian marsupials and monotremes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 257-279 [274]

Distribution

States

Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld, SA, Vic: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), 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)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804 [MURIDAE] Water-rat).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine

General References

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 (redescription)

Smales, L.R., Miller, A.K. & Obendorf, D.L. 1990. Parasites of the water rat, Hydromys chrysogaster, from Victoria and South Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 37(6): 657-663 (additional records)

Smales, L.R. & Cribb, T.H. 1997. Helminth parasite communities of the water-rat, Hydromys chrysogaster, from Queensland. Wildlife Research 24: 445-457 (additional records)

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