Odilia (nematode)
| Odilia | |
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| Synlophes of species of Odilia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Heligmonellidae |
| Genus: | Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973 |
| Type species | |
| Odilia mackerrasae (Mawson, 1961) | |
| Species | |
| See text | |
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
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 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.