Dracunculus spp

Cleveland, Christopher A., Garrett, Kayla B., Cozad, Rebecca A., Williams, Brianna M., Murray, Maureen H. & Yabsley, Michael J., 2018, The wild world of Guinea Worms: A review of the genus Dracunculus in wildlife, International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 7 (3), pp. 289-300 : 294

2.1.4. Dracunculus spp . from oceania

The only species from Oceania is D. mulbus , which was originally described from nematodes collected from the body cavity of the water python ( Liasis fuscus ) in northern Australia ( Table 1) ( Jones and Mulder, 2007). This parasite was found in 22% of pythons examined and a maximum of 14 individual nematodes were detected; males were collected from around the heart, lungs, and liver and females from the mesenteries. This parasite has also been reported from the Papuan olive python ( Apodora papuana ) from Papua New Guinea ( Moravec and Gibson, 2007).