Odilia (genus)

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

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]


References

  1. Durette-Desset M-C. 1973. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nématode). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée, 48, 517–518.
  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.
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