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garoo from Kangaroo Island (Smales and Mawson,<br />

1978; Beveridge, 1986) and Petrogale lateralis<br />

Gould, 1842, the black-footed wallaby<br />

from Pearson Island (Johnston and Mawson,<br />

1940; Mawson, 1971; Beveridge, 1986), both<br />

southern localities offshore from South Australia.<br />

Popovastrongylus irma is found only in the<br />

western brush wallaby in southwestern Australia<br />

(Mawson, 1977), but in contrast to P. pearsoni<br />

it has not been reported from sympatric hosts in<br />

the region.<br />

In general, species of Popovastrongylus infect<br />

mainly pademelons and the small wallabies, M.<br />

irma, M. eugenii, and M. rufogriseus. The genus<br />

is not common in the larger kangaroos from<br />

northern Queensland, with only 1 or 2 nematodes<br />

present in each individual host (Beveridge,<br />

1986) and does not normally occur in kangaroos<br />

in the southern states (Beveridge and Arundel,<br />

1979; Arundel et al., 1979, 1990). Neither is the<br />

genus found in Wallabia bicolor, the swamp<br />

wallaby (Beveridge et al., 1985), nor the macropodid<br />

genera Hypsiprymnodon, Aepyprymnus,<br />

Onychogalea, Lagorchestes, or Dendrolagus<br />

(Beveridge et al., 1992).<br />

Acknowledgments<br />

My thanks go to Ms. J. Forrest from the South<br />

Australian Museum for making material available<br />

and to Dr. I. Beveridge for his unfailing<br />

help and generosity.<br />

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