Species Woolleya sprenti Mawson, 1973

Museums

Regional Maps

• Woolleya sprenti Mawson, P.M. 1973. Amidostomatinae (Nematoda: Trichostrongyloidea) from Australian marsupials and monotremes. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 97: 257-279 [275].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41521 Vial (Holotype & "Type" have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Icena, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41521 (as "Type") Vial (Holotype & "Type" have same Reg. No. and in same vial.), Icena, Tasmania; SAMA AHC5448 Vial 1♂ 1♀, Icena, Tasmania.

  Type host:

   Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) [DASYURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas: Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) [DASYURIDAE] Eastern Quoll; Dasyurus viverrinus (Shaw, 1800) [DASYURIDAE] Eastern Quoll; Dasyurus maculatus (Kerr, 1792) [DASYURIDAE] Spotted-tailed Quoll; Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris, 1808 [THYLACINIDAE] Thylacine; Thylacinus cynocephalus Harris, 1808 [THYLACINIDAE] Thylacine).

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)

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 record; as Woolleya cathiae)

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