Revised 03/16/23
Obligate parasites of molluscs. Definitive hosts are slugs and snails.
Examples: genera Angiostoma and Aulacnema. Obligate parasites of the mollusc intestine, hepatopancreas, oesophagus, buccal mass, crop, mantle cavity, salivary gland and pallial cavity .
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.