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Classification:

Chromadorea

  Chromadoria

   Rhabditida

Spirurina

              Dracunculoidea

               Guyanemidae

Histodytes Aragort, Alvarez, Iglesias, Leiro & Sanmartin, 2002

Type species of the genus; Histodytes microcellatus Aragort, Alvarez, Iglesias, Leiro & Sanmartin, 2002

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Feeding:

Marine parasites of fish and elasmobranchs

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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.

Copyright 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: February 18, 2025.