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On Brachylaemus (Trematoda) from Marsupials*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Dorothea F. Sandars
Dorothea F. Sandars
Affiliation:
From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Brachylaemus dasyuri (Johnston, 1912) is recorded from Thylacis obesulus (Shaw & Nodder, 1797) from Queensland. It is redescribed and Brachylaemus simile (Johnston, 1912) is confirmed to be a synonym.

A review is made of the species of Brachylaemus recorded from American and Australian marsupials. It seems probable that they have arisen from a common ancestral type parasite in an ancestral marsupial.

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Research Article
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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , December 1957 , pp. 265 - 272
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1957

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