Species Odilia mackerrasae (Mawson, 1961)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Heligmonoides mackerrasae Mawson, P.M. 1961. Trichostrongyles from rodents in Queensland, with comments on the genus Longistriata (Nematoda: Heligmosomatidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 9: 791-826 [808].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC41331 Vial ♂ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC41331 (as Allotype) Vial ♀ (Holotype & Allotype have same Reg. No. and are in same vial.), Innisfail, Queensland; SAMA AHC3860 Vial, Innisfail, Queensland.

  Type host:

   Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] (Parasite from intestine)

 

Generic Combinations

• Odilia mackerrasae (Mawson, 1961). —
  Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), 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): Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse, 1839) [MURIDAE] Bush Rat; Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) [MURIDAE] Fawn-footed Melomys; Uromys caudimaculatus (Krefft, 1867) [MURIDAE] Giant White-tailed Rat; Melomys burtoni (Ramsay, 1887) [MURIDAE] Grassland Melomys; Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus, 1758) [LEPORIDAE] Rabbit).

Extra Ecological Information

In small intestine.

 

General References

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1969. Les systèmes d'arêtes cuticulaires chez les nématodes héligmosomes parasites de muridés australiens. Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 44: 733-747 (additional morphological details)

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1971. Essai de classification des Nématodes Héligmosomes. Corrélations avec la paléobigéographie des hôtes. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 64: 1-126

Durette-Desset, M.-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nematoda). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 48: 517

Obendorf, D.L. 1979. The helminth parasites of Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse) from Victoria. Australian Journal of Zoology 27: 867-879 (additional records)

Smales, L.R. 1992. A survey of the helminths of Rattus sordidus, the canefield rat, together with a description of Ancistronema coronatum n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Chabertiidae). Systematic Parasitology 22: 73-80

Smales, L.R., Heinrich, B. & McKillup, S.C. 2004. The helminth parasites of Melomys cervinipes (Rodentia: Muridae: Hydromyinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 52: 65-80

Smales, L.R. & Spratt, D.M. 2008. Helminth assemblages of Uromys spp. (Muridae: Hydromyinae) from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Papua Indonesia and comparison with assemblages in Melomys spp. Australian Journal of Zoology 56: 283-291

Smales L.R. 2005. Helminth parasites of the grassland melomys (Muridae: Hydromyinae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Australian Journal of Zoology 53: 369-374

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022	RHABDITIDA Chitwood, 1933	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
22-Mar-2022	CHROMADOREA Inglis, 1983	22-Jun-2022	MODIFIED	Ms Jo Wood
26-Nov-2015	Heligmonellini (Skryabin & Schikhobalova, 1952)	05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
26-Nov-2015		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
24-Nov-2015		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
16-Dec-2011		16-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Aug-2011		29-Aug-2011	MOVED
26-Aug-2011		26-Aug-2011	MOVED
04-Jun-2012		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
19-Aug-2010		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED
19-Aug-2010		10-Aug-2010	MOVED
		05-Aug-2022	MODIFIED