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Classification:

         Chromadorea

Chromadoria

         Rhabditida

Rhabditina

             Infraorder Rhabditomorpha

                  Heligmosomoidea

       Heligmosomidae

Heligmosominae

                   

                  Citellinema Hall, 1916

 

      Type species of the genus: Citellinema bifurcatum Hall, 1916

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Citellinema

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References:

Alnaqeb, H., Galbreath, K.E., Koehler, A.V., Campbell, M.L., Jimenex, F.A.  2022. Citellinema (Nematoda: Heligmosomidae) from North America with descriptions of 2 new species from the red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus and 1 from the Canadian woodchuck, Marmota monax. Parasitology 149:1199-1218. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S0031182022000737

Hall, M.C. 1916. Nematode parasites of mammals of the orders Rodentia, Lagomorpha, and Hyracoidea. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 50:1-258.

Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: March 24, 2026.