Dusky rat, Rattus colletti (Muridae), a new host for Echinoparyphium hydromyos (Trematoda: Digenea) in the Northern Territory, Australia

Comparative Parasitology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 289-290

  Mulder, Eridani ^a   Smales, Lesley R ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adelaide River; Australia; Digenea; Dusky rat; Echinoparyphium hydromyos; Echinostomatidae; Hydromys chrysogaster; Northern Territory; Occasional infection; Rattus colletti; Trematoda; Water rat

Indexed keywords

DIGENEA (FLUKES); ECHINOPARYPHIUM; HYDROMYS CHRYSOGASTER; MURIDAE; RATTUS COLLETTI; SCAPTEROMYS AQUATICUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 33748036707     PISSN: 15252647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1654/4203.1     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Angel, L. M. 1967. The life-cycle of Echinoparyphium hydromyos sp. nov. (Digenea: Echinostomatidae) from the Australian water rat. Parasitology 57:19-30.
2. Madsen, T., and M. Shine. 1999. Rainfall and rats: climatically-driven dynamics of a tropical rodent population. Australian Journal of Ecology 24:80-89.
3. Obendorf, D. L. 1979. The Helminth parasites of Rattus fuscipes (Waterhouse) from Victoria, including description of two new nematode species. Australian Journal of Zoology 27:867-879.
4. Olsen, P. D. 1995. Water-rat Hydromys chrysogaster Geoffroy, 1804. Pages 628-629 in R. Strahan, ed. The Mammals of Australia. Reed New Holland, Sydney, Australia.
5. Smales, L. R. 1997. A Review of the helminth parasites of Australian rodents. Australian Journal of Zoology 45:505-521.
6. Smales, L. R., and T. H. Cribb. 1997. Helminth parasite communities of the water rat from Queensland. Wildlife Research 24:445-447.
7. Williams, C. K. 1995. Dusky rat Rattus colletti (Thomas, 1904) in R. Strahan, ed. The Mammals of Australia. Reed New Holland, Sydney, Australia.