Species Gongylonema bettongiae Spratt, 2023

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• Gongylonema bettongiae Spratt, D.M. 2023. Redescription of species of Gongylonema Molin, 1857 (Nematoda: Spiruroidea: Gongylonematidae) parasitic in some Australian vertebrate hosts and descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 5239(2): 204–220.

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA AHC49241 (Holotype = Male; Allotype = Female, AHC49242), Kempton, Tasmania.
  Paratype(s) SAMA AHC49243, AHC49244, same data as Holotype; QM G240161, G240162, same data as Holotype; ANWC N1337, same data as Holotype.

  Type host:

   Bettongia gaimardi (Desmarest, 1822) [POTOROIDAE] Eastern bettong

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Tasmania: Kempton; Bridgenorth; Margate; Icena; Mount Wellington

Victoria: Serendip Sanctuary

New South Wales: Taronga Zoo, Sydney; Buckenbowra State Forest, Quart Pot Road

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Tas, Vic: Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Trichosurus vulpecula (Kerr, 1792) [PHALANGERIDAE] Common brushtail possum; Potorous tridactylus (Kerr, 1792) [POTOROIDAE] Long-nosed potoroo; Aepyprymus rufescens (Gray, 1837) [POTOROIDAE] Rufous bettong).

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	SPIRURIDA	17-Apr-2023	ADDED