Revised 02/26/24
Rhabditida
Rhabditoidea
Agfidae Dougherty, 1955
Obligate parasites of molluscs. Definitive hosts are slugs and snails.
A small family with three known species:
Agfa flexilis, A. morandi
and A. tauricus.
Ivanova, E.S., Wilson, M.J. 2009. Two new species of Angiostoma Dujardin, 1845 (Nematoda: Angiostomatidae) from British terrestrial molluscs. Syst Parasitol 74:113-124. DOI 10.1007/s11230-009-9200-z
Pieterse, A., Malan, A.P., Ross, J.L. 2017. Nematodes that associate with terrestrial molluscs as definitive hosts, including Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae) and its development as a biological molluscicide. J. Helminthol. 91:517-527.
Ross, J.L., Ivanova, E.S., Spiridonov, S.E., Waeyenberge, L., Moens, M., Nicol, G.W., Wilson, M.J. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of slug-parasitic nematodes inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:738-743.