Two New Species of the Genus Heterakis (Heterakidae) from the Genera Echymipera, Isoodon and Perameles (Peramelidae), Bandicoots from Papua New Guinea and Australia.

The heterakid fauna of mammals now comprises eight species: the cosmopolitan species Heterakis spumosa Schneider, 1886 as well as H. balamukensis n. sp., H. fieldingi Smales, 1996, H. oweni n. sp. and H. sirawii Smales, 2016 from Australasia, H. dahomensis (Gendre, 1911) from Africa, and H. inglisi Gupta & Trevadi, 1982 and H. yamagutii Gupta & Trevadi, 1982 from India. Two species have been declared species inquirenda; H. equispicularis Uphadyyay, 2017 and H. verrucosa Molin, 1860, while H. rattui Ghambir, Gyaneswori, Tarnita, Indrani & Zenith, 2008 falls as a junior synonym of H. spumosa. No infections of the cosmopolitan species infecting rodent hosts, Heterakis spumosa Schneider, 1866, were found in bandicoots.