Cercopithifilaria pearsoni ( Spratt & Varughese, 1975 ) Bain, Baker & Chabaud, 1983

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 : 47

Cercopithifilaria pearsoni ( Spratt & Varughese, 1975) Bain, Baker & Chabaud, 1983

Dipetalonema pearsoni Spratt & Varughese, 1975, pp. 33–36 , figs. 37–47, from Isoodon macrourus Woolwonga , Northern Territory.

Dipetalonema (Chenofilaria) pearsoni (Spratt & Varughese) Chabaud & Bain, 1976, p. 383 .

Cercopithifilaria pearsoni (Spratt & Varughese) Bain, Baker & Chabaud, 1983, p. 618 ; Spratt et al. 1991, pp. 25, 70.

Type host. Isoodon macrourus (Marsupialia: Peramelidae ).

Site in host. Subcutaneous connective tissue,

Distribution and hosts. Cercopithifilaria pearsoni is known only from the original description from the northern brown bandicoot, Isoodon macrourus , from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory, despite the broad geographic distribution of this host in the Territory and eastern Queensland.

Remarks. This species is distinguished from its only congener, C. johnstoni , by the long left spicule with long, stouter filament; long, stout, moderately sclerotised right spicule with angulate, complex, distal extremity and microfilaria with a filamentous, non-forked tail.