Bertiella anapolytica Baylis, 1934

Beveridge, Ian & Smales, Lesley R., 2017, Cestode Parasites (Platyhelminthes) of Rodents from New Guinea and Adjacent Islands with a Redescription of Paroniella blanchardi (Parona, 1897) (Davaineidae), Records of the Australian Museum (Rec. Aust. Mus.) 69 (6), pp. 451-460 : 453

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1667
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4677151
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scientific name	Bertiella anapolytica Baylis, 1934
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Material examined. From Paramelomys lorentzii (Jentink, 1908) (Lorentz’s paramelomys): Wokam Island, Aru Islands , Western Papua, 6°10'S 134°30'E (W23783) GoogleMaps .

Remarks. This cestode species has been reported from Sumatra ( Baylis, 1934) and from south-eastern Australia ( Beveridge, 1985) from species of Rattus . The current report is thE first frOm NEW GuinEa and ExtEnds thE knOWn hOst range of the species to the genus Melomys . The host specimen from which these cestodes were obtained is apparently that referred to by Flannery (1995a), as the only specimen of this host collected on the Aru Islands.

References

Baylis, H. A. 1934. On two new species of the cestode genus Bertiella, with a note on the presence of uterine pores. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 14: 412 - 421. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933408654914

Beveridge, I. 1985. The genus Bertiella (Cestoda: Anoplocephalidae) from Australasian mammals: new species, new records and redescriptions. Systematic Paraitology 7: 241 - 289. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00009995

Flannery, T. F. 1995 a. Mammals of the South-West Pacific and Moluccan Islands. Chatswood, NSW: Australian Museum / Reed Books.