Bunostomum phlebotomum

Cattle Hookworm

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Rev 10/30/2025

  Classification Biology and Ecology
Morphology and Anatomy Life Cycle
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Distribution Management
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 Classification

Phylum:  Nematoda
Class:    Chromadorea
Order:    Rhabditida 

Superfamily:  Ancylostomatoidea

Family:  Ancylostomidae

 

Bunostomum phlebotomum (Railliet, 1900) Lane, 1917

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Males:

Females:

Ref: Marchiondo et al., 2020

 

 
Reported median body size for this species (Length mm; width micrometers; weight micrograms) - Click:


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Distribution:

Cosmopolitan in warm moist climates as a parasite of calle and other ruminants (Marchiondo et al., 2020).

 

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Economic Importance:

 

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Hosts:

Bunostomum phlebotomum is a parasite of cattle

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Feeding:

Small intestine

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Life Cycle:

Definitive hosts are cattle. Lifecycle is direct.

Definitive hosts pass eggs  in the feces. Eggs released in the feces develop and hatch as infective Lr larvae in 5-16 days. Infective L3 penetrate through the skin or are swallowed by definitive host.. Larvae migrate to the respiratory tract, are coughed up, swallowed, and reach the small intestine to develop to adults.

The prepatent period is 52-60 days   (Marchiondo et al., 2020).

  (Marchiondo et al., 2020).

   

 

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Damage:

 

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References:

Marchiondo, A.A. Cruthers, L.R., Reinemeyer, C. 2020. Nematoda, Trichostrongyloidea. Chapter 2 in Marchiondo, Cruthers and Fourie (eds) Parasiticide Screening Vol 2. Academic Press

 

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