Sprattia capilliformis ( Baylis, 1934 ) Chabaud & Bain, 1976

Spratt, David M., 2011, New records of filarioid nematodes (Nematoda: Filarioidea) parasitic in Australasian monotremes, marsupials and murids, with descriptions of nine new species 2860, Zootaxa 2860 (1), pp. 1-61 : 51

Sprattia capilliformis ( Baylis, 1934) Chabaud & Bain, 1976

Dipetalonema capilliforme Baylis, 1934, pp. 551–554 , figs. 1–2, from Dasyurus hallucatus (as Satanellus hallucatus )) Townsville, Queensland; Mackerras 1962, pp. 418–421, pl. 2 fig 4, figs. 24–26; Spratt & Varughese 1975, pp. 40–45, figs. 60–72.

Breinlia capilliformis (Baylis) Yeh, 1957, p. 201 (spelling emendation).

Sprattia capilliformis (Baylis) Chabaud & Bain, 1976, p. 368 ; Spratt et al. 1991, pp. 19, 87).

Type host. Dasyurus hallucatus Gould (Marsupialia: Dasyuridae ).

Other hosts. Dasyurus geoffroii .

Site in host: Superior mesenteric and portal veins below liver.

Other material examined. From Dasyurus hallucatus: NT : 2♂, 3♀, ( N4381 ) Arnhem Highway nr Fox’s Creek ; 1♂, 3♀, ( N4411 ) Coomalie Ck .; 4♂, 5♀, ( N893 ) Nourlangie .

From Dasyurus geoffroii: WA : 1♂, 10♀, ( N1959 ) Mitchell Plateau .

Distribution and hosts. Sprattia capilliformis is known from the little northern quoll, D. hallucatus , in the Northern Territory and the Chuditch, D. geoffroii , in the northern Kimberly region of Western Australia but remains unknown from the spotted–tailed quoll, D. maculatus , and the eastern quoll, D. viverrinus , in southeastern Australia.

Remarks. This is the first described of the three species of Sprattia each occurring, in all likelihood, in the small blood vessels of a single host species in each of three families of marsupials, the Dasyuridae , Peramelidae and Phalangeridae , and occurring predominantly in the northern half of the continent.