Family Dioctophymatidae

                                 Revised 01/12/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

 

Enoplea

  Dorylaimia

   Dioctophymatida

Dioctophymatina

Dioctophymatoidea

 

Dioctophymatidae Raillet, 1915

   

Synonym:

Dioctophymidae Raillet, 1915

 

A family of nematode parasites of fish and fish-eating birds and mammals.

Genera:

  • Dioctophyme (or Dioctophyma) Collet-Meygret, 1802

  • Eustrongylides Jagerskiold, 1909

  • Hystrichis Dujardin, 1844

  • Neostrongyloides Pathore & Nama, 1988


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