Ophidascaris

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  Classification Biology and Ecology
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Classification

Class:    Chromadorea
SubClass: Spiruria
Order:   Ascaridida
Superfamily: Ascaridoidea
Family:  Ascarididae

                          Ophidascaris Baylis 1921

Type species of the genus: Ophidascaris filaria Dujardin, 1845

Synonyms:

Ophidascaris rubicunda Schneider, 1866

Ophidascaris infundibulicola Linstow, 1903

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Nematodes with general characteristics of Ascarididae.

Ref: Sprent, 1988


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Distribution

 

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Economic Importance:

Primarily intestinal parasites of snakes and amphibians although Ophidascaris robertsi has been reported from a marsupial and has beec recovered from the brain of a human female in Australia.

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Hosts:

Human

 

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Feeding

Intestinal mucosa

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Life Cycle

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Damage:

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References:

Baylis, H.A. 1920. On the classification of the Ascaridae 1. The systematic value of certain characters of the alimentary canal. Parasitology, 12:253-264.

Baylis, H.A. 1921. On the classification of the Ascaridae. II. The Polydelphis group; with some account of other ascarids parasitic in snakes. Parasitology, 12:411-426.

Sprent, J.F.A. 1988. Ascaridoid nematodes of amphibians and reptiles: Ophidascaris Baylis, 1920. Systematic Parasitology 11:165-213.

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