Odilia
Synlophes of species of Odilia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Nematoda
Class:
Chromadorea
Order:
Rhabditida
Family:
Heligmonellidae
Subfamily:
Nippostrongylinae
Genus:
Odilia

Durette-Desset, 1973
Type species
Odilia mackerrasae
(Mawson, 1961)
Species

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Odilia is a genus of nematode worms established by Marie-Claude Durette-Desset in 1973[1] that infect mostly murid rodents of the Australasian region (species of Melomys, Rattus and Uromys from mainland Australia and Tasmania.[2]

Species include:[2]

  • Odilia brachybursa (Mawson, 1961) (Host: Melomys, Australia)
  • Odilia emanuelae (Mawson, 1961) (Host: Rattus, Australia)
  • Odilia mackerrasae (Mawson, 1961) (Host: Melomys, Uromys, Australia) – type species
  • Odilia melomyos (Mawson, 1961) (Host: Melomys, Uromys, Australia)
  • Odilia tasmaniensis Gibbons & Spratt, 1995 (Host: Rattus, Tasmania)

References

  1. ↑ Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude (1973). "Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nématode)". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 48 (3): 517–518. doi:10.1051/parasite/1973483517. ISSN 0003-4150. Open access icon
  2. 1 2 Durette-Desset, Marie-Claude; Digiani, María Celina (2015). "Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973". Parasite. 22: 32. doi:10.1051/parasite/2015032. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 4656974. PMID 26598025. Open access icon


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