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Chromadorea
Rhabditia
Rhabditida
Metastongyloidea
Protostrongylidae
Type species of the genus: Protostrongylus rufescens (Leuckart, 1865) Kamenskii, 1905
Synonyms:
Strongylus Muller, 1780
Synthetocaulus Railliet and Henry, 1907
As of 2014, 29 species of Protostrongylus were described, of those, 7 species are reported from lagomorphs (Lesage et al., 2014).
Type species (Protostrongylus rufescens) described from domestic sheep (Ovis aries).
The majority of species of Protostrongylus are parasites of ungulates (Dougherty and Goble, 1946).
Protostrongylus coburni has been reported in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus borealis) (Goble, 1941; Loginova et al., 2023)
Dougherty, E.C., Goble, F.C. 1946. The Genus Protostrongylus Kamenskii, 1905 (Nematoda: Metastrongylidae), and Its Relatives: Preliminary Note. J. Parasitol. 32:7-16.
Goble FC 1941 Tissue changes in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus Virginianus Borealis) accompanying natural infections of lungworms (genera Protostrongylus and Dictyocaulus). J Wildlife Manag 5:141-158.
Kamenskii S.N. 1905. Sistematicheskoe polozhenie radov Metastrongylus Wost. i Protostrongylus g. n. sredi drugikh Strongylidae. Sborn. Trudov Khar'kov. Vet. Inst. 7:17-50.
Lesage, C., Jouet, D., Patrelle, C., Guitton, C.S., Decors, A., Ferte, H. 2014. Protostrongylus pulmonalis (Fr�lich, 1802) and P. oryctolagi Babo�, 1955 (Nematoda: Protostrongylidae), parasites of the lungs of European hare (Lepus europaeus L.) in France: morphological and molecular approaches. Parasitol Res 113:2103-2111
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