
%0 Journal Article
%A Smales, Lesley R. 
%T <emph type="2">Multisentis myrmecobius</emph>, gen. et. sp. nov. (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae), from the Numbat, <emph type="2">Myrmecobius fasciatus</emph>, and a Key to Genera of the Oligacanthorhynchidae
%J Invertebrate Systematics
%D 1997/04/03
%V 11
%N 2
%P 301-307
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/IT95023
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IT95023 
%X A new genus and a new species of acanthocephalan are described from the numbat Myrmecobius fasciatus, a termite-eating marsupial from south-western Australia. Multisentis myrmecobius belongs to the family Oligacanthorhynchidae and a key to the genera of this family is given. The life cycle is presumed to involve termites as the intermediate host. The definitive host-parasite relationship is assumed to have evolved since the origins of M. fasciatus from ancestral marsupial forms before the late Miocene. 
