Calodium		Contents		Rev: 03/20/2026
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Classification:

Enoplea

    Dorylaimia

        Trichinellida

            Trichinellina

Trichinelloidea

Capillariidae

 

Calodium (Dujardin, 1845) Moravec, 1982

 

Type species of the genus: Calodium hepaticum (Bancroft, 1893) Moravec, 1982 (??)

   

Synonyms:
     

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Morphology and Anatomy:

	Females:    Ref: Tamaru et al., 2025
Males:
Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

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Distribution:

Cosmopolitian, over 150 known mammalian hosts of this genus (Tamaru et al., 2025).

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Calodium

Parasites of tissues of mammals, including liver, and spleen; whitish lesions on surfece of liver. Infections reported in brown rats.

 

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Biology and Ecology:

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Life Cycle:

 

For Ecophysiological Parameters for this genus, click

 

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Ecosystem Functions and Services:

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Management:

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References:

Moravec, F. 1982. Proposal of a new systematic arrangement of nematodes of the family Capillariidae. Folia Parasitol. 29: 119-132.

Tamaru, M., Sakaguchi, S., Souza, Y., Murata, K., Yunus, M., Rosyadi, I., Dabo, H. 2025. Integrated Taxonomic Approaches to Gastrointestinal and Urinary Capillariid Nematodes from Wild and Domestic Mammals. Pathogens 14, 455  doi.org/10.3390/pathogens14050455

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Copyright © 1999 by Howard Ferris.
Revised: March 20, 2026.