Family Daniconematidae

                                 Revised 01/12/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Rhabditida
                         Spirurina
                           Dracunculoidea
Daniconematidae Moravec & Koie, 1987
 

A family of parasites of fish; somewhat restricted Palearctic distribution (Aragort et al., 2002)
                


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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.

Moravec, F. and Koie, M. 1987. Daniconema anguillae gen. et sp. n., a new nematode of a new family Daniconematidae fam. n. parasitic in European eels. Folia Parasitologica 34:335-340.

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