A family of nematode parasites of marine and freshwater eels.

• Wide distribution, in the western Pacific, but species have also been imported by trade to aters around Europe and North America (Aragort et al., 2002)..

References

.Aragort, W., Alvarez, F., Iglesias, R., Leiro, J.,\ and Sanmartin, M.L. 2002.  Histodytes microocellatus gen. et sp. nov. (Dracunculoidea: Guyanemidae), a parasite of Raja microocellata on the European Atlantic coast (north-western Spain). Parasitol. Res. 88:932-940.

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