Odilia (nematode) explained

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)

Notes and References

1. Durette-Desset. Marie-Claude. Note rectificative sur le genre Austrostrongylus (Nématode). Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 48. 3. 1973. 517–518. 0003-4150. 10.1051/parasite/1973483517. free.
2. Durette-Desset. Marie-Claude. Digiani. María Celina. Taxonomic revision of the Nippostrongylinae (Nematoda, Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973. Parasite. 22. 2015. 32. 1776-1042. 10.1051/parasite/2015032. 26598025. 4656974.