Dorcopsinema		Contents		Rev 07/07/2025
		Classification		Biology and Ecology
		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

Phylum:  Nematoda
Class:    Chromadorea
Order:    Rhabditida 

Superfamily:  Strongyloidea

Family:  Chabertiidae

Subfamily: Cloacininae

Dorcopsinema Mawson, 1977

Type species of the genus Dorcopsinema dorcopsis Mawson, 1977

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Species of Dorcopsinema are characterixed by:

• very thick collar,
• buccal capsule lacking longitudinal ridges and anterior projections,
• unique shape of the esophagus.

Ref: Mawson, 1977

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

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Distribution:

As of 2014, the genus Dorcopsinema was known only from Papua New Guinea, Papua Indonesia and associated islands (Mawson, 1977; Purwaningsih and Smales, 2014).

Two of the six known species of Dorcopsinema occur in species of Dendrolagus (tree kangaroo), one in Dorcopsulus vanheurni (forest wallaby), one in Dorcopsis luctuosa (gray forest wallaby) and three, in D. muelleri (brown forest wallaby) (Purwaningsih and Smales, 2018).

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Economic Importance:

Parasites of marsupials (wallabies)

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Hosts:

Species of the genus Dorcopsinema have most commonly been identified iin the stomachs of the brown forest wallaby, Dorcopsis muelleri.

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Dorcopsinema

Stomach parasites of marsupials (wallabies).

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Life Cycle:

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Damage:

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Management:

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References:

Mawson, P.M. 1977. Revision of the genus Macropostrongylus and description of the three new genera: Popovastrongylus, Dorcopsinema, and Arundelia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 101:51-62.

Purwaningsih, E., and  Smales, L.R. 2014. New species of Dorcopsinema and Paralabiostrongylus (Nematoda;Chabertiidae: Cloacininae) from Indonesia, with a key to species of Dorcopsinema. Zootaxa, 3857: 591-598.

Purwaningsih, E., and  Smales, L.R. 2018. New species of Labiobulura (Nematoda: Ascaridida), and Dorcopsinema and Paralabiostrongylus (Nematoda: Strongylida) from Dorcopsis muelleri (Macropodidae) from Lengguru, West Papua, Indonesia. Trans. Roy. Soc. South Australia 142:56-69

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