Odilia (nematode)

Genus of roundworms

Odilia

Synlophes of species of Odilia
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Nematoda
Class:  | Chromadorea
Order:  | Rhabditida
Family:  | Heligmonellidae
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[edit]

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.
2. ^ 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.

Taxon identifiers

Odilia|

* Wikidata: Q22286533
* AFD: Odilia
* GBIF: 4630602
* IRMNG: 1380268
* NCBI: 1290203
* Open Tree of Life: 939407

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