''Marsupostrongylus longilarvatus'' is a metastrongyl (lung-worm) found in various

marsupial Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia, Wallacea and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to most of these species is that the young are carried in a ...

s. It was described as new to science by D.M. Spratt in 1979 from a

swamp wallaby The swamp wallaby (''Wallabia bicolor'') is a small macropod marsupial of eastern Australia. This wallaby is also commonly known as the black wallaby, with other names including black-tailed wallaby, fern wallaby, black pademelon, stinker (in Q ...

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q16754862 Nematodes described in 1979 Rhabditida Parasitic nematodes of mammals Parasites of marsupials