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Classification:

Chromadorea
Chromadoria

           Rhabditida 

                       Spirurina

                          Oxyuroidea

                   Oxyuridae see also Pharyngodonidae

Pharyngodoninae

 

            Spauligodon Skrjabin, Schikkhobalova & Lagodovskaja, 1960

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Morphology and Anatomy:

Species of Spauligodon are separated on the basis of the presence or absence of a spicule, the appearance of the tail, egg morphology, and geographical distribution (Bursey et al., 2014). .

General characteristics of the genus:

Spauligodon bintangensis (1) Female, anterior, lateral view. (2) Female, en face view. (3) Egg. (4) Male, entire, ventral view. (5) Female, posterior, lateral view. (6) Male, posterior, ventral view. (7) Male, entire, lateral view. (8) Male, entire, lateral view, internal organ arrangement Drawings from Bursey et al., 2014

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Distribution:

As of 2014, 50 species are assigned to Spauligodon: 8 from the Afrotropical realm, 1 from the Australian realm, 1 from the Madagascan realm, 7 from the Nearctic realm, 3 from the Neotropical realm, 3 from the Oceanian realm, 1 from the Oriental realm, 16 from the Palaeractic region, 5 from the Panamanian realm, and 5 from the Saharo-Arabian realm (Bursey et al., 2014)..

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Economic Importance:

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Spauligodon

Intestinal parasites.

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Hosts:

Spauligodon obvelata is the common pinworm parasite of mouse.

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Life Cycle:

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Damage:

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Management:

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References:

Bursey, C.R., Goldberg, S.R. and Grismerm L.L. 2014. A new species of Spauligodon (Nematoda: Oxyuroidea: Pharyngodonidae) in Cyrtodactylus bintangrendah (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from peninsular Malaysia. J. Parsaitol 100:317-322.

 Skrjabin,K.L., Schikkhobalova, N.P., Lagodovskaja, E.A., 1960. Oxyurata of animals and man. Part 1. Oxyuroidea. Izdatel�stvo akademii Nauk SSSR, Moskova. Translated from Russian, Israel Program for Scientific Translation, Jerusalem, 526 p.

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Revised: May 30, 2025.