parasites and associated pathology of the swamp wallaby, wallabia bicolor (marsupialia). | thirty-five swamp wallabies from victoria, new south wales and queensland, australia were examined for parasites. thirty-nine species of nematodes, five species of cestodes and eight species of arthropods were found. wallabies from queensland and northern new south wales had a less diverse helminth fauna (23 species) than did wallabies from southern new south wales and victoria (32 species). rugopharynx spp. and cloacina spp. occurred in large numbers in the stomach but provoked no pathological ... | 1985 | 4078972 |
progamotaenia ruficola sp. n. (cestoda: anoplocephalidae) from the red kangaroo, macropus rufus (marsupialia). | progamotaenia ruficola sp. n. is described from the red kangaroo (macropus rufus) from new south wales, australia. it is distinguished from other similar species having paired, nondiverticulate uteri in each prolottis: progamotaenia festiva (rudolphi 1819), p. diaphana (zschokke 1907), and p. macropodis beveridge 1976, by the extremely broad, straight-edged velum, the lack of an external seminal vesicle, the cirrus armature, the number of testes, the lack of vaginal atrophy following inseminatio ... | 1978 | 641671 |