Host taxa for Ophidascaris Baylis, 1921
Animal Hosts
EUTHERIA
MURIDAE
- Melomys cervinipes (Gould, 1852) — Fawn-footed Melomys
PROTOTHERIA
TACHYGLOSSIDAE
- Tachyglossus aculeatus (Shaw, 1792) — Short-beaked Echidna
REPTILIA
AGAMIDAE
- Pogona barbata (Cuvier, 1829) — Bearded Dragon
BOIDAE
- Antaresia sp.
- Aspidites melanocephalus (Krefft, 1864) — Black-headed Python
- Aspidites ramsayi (Macleay, 1882) — Woma
- Liasis fuscus Peters, 1873 — Water Python
- Morelia amethistina
- Morelia spilota (Lacépède, 1804) — Carpet Python
COLUBRIDAE
- Dendrelaphis punctulata
- Tropidonophis mairii (J.E. Gray, 1841) — Freshwater Snake
ELAPIDAE
- Austrelaps superbus (Günther, 1858) — Lowland Copperhead
- Cacophis sp.
- Cacophis squamulosus (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) — Golden-crowned Snake
- Demansia atra
- Demansia olivacea (J.E. Gray, 1842) — Marble-headed Whipsnake
- Demansia psammophis (Schlegel, 1837) — Yellow-faced Whip Snake
- Echiopsis curta (Schlegel, 1837) — Bardick
- Hemiaspis signata (Jan, 1859) — Black-bellied Swamp Snake
- Hoplocephalus bitorquatus (Jan, 1859) — Pale-headed Snake
- Hoplocephalus bungaroides (Schlegel, 1837) — Broad-headed Snake
- Hoplocephalus stephensii Krefft, 1869 — Stephens' Banded Snake
- Notechis ater
- Notechis scutatus (Peters, 1861) — Tiger Snake
- Pseudechis australis (J.E. Gray, 1842) — King Brown Snake
- Pseudechis porphyriacus (Shaw, 1794) — Red-bellied Black Snake
- Pseudonaja modesta (Günther, 1872) — Ringed Brown Snake
- Pseudonaja nuchalis Günther, 1858 — Northern Brown Snake
- Pseudonaja textilis (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) — Common Brown Snake
- Rhinoplocephalus nigrescens
- Suta punctata (Boulenger, 1896) — Little Spotted Snake
- Tropidechis carinatus (Krefft, 1863) — Rough-scaled Snake
PYGOPODIDAE
- Lialis burtonis J.E. Gray, 1835 — Burton's Snake-lizard
SCINCIDAE
- Bellatorias major J.E. Gray, 1845 — Land Mullet
- Ctenotus sp.
- Tiliqua scincoides (White, 1790) — Eastern Blue-tongue
TYPHLOPIDAE
- Ramphotyphlops nigrescens (J.E. Gray, 1845) — Blackish Blind Snake
VARANIDAE
- Varanus gouldii (J.E. Gray, 1838) — Gould's Goanna
- Varanus rosenbergi Mertens, 1957 — Heath Monitor
- Varanus varius (White, 1790) — Lace Monitor
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