• A family of nematodes that are mainly parasites of vertebrates of New Zealand but also elsewhere.
• Precloacal sucker with chitinous rim
• Esophagus with bulbous postcorpus

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References

Guo-Hua Liu G-H., Steven A. Nadler, Shan-Shan Liu, Magdalena Podolska4 Stefano DeAmelio, Renfu Shao, Robin B.Gasser & Xing-Quan Zhu. 2016. Mitochondrial Phylogenomics yields Strongly Supported Hypotheses for Ascaridomorph Nematodes.Nature Scientific Reports 6:Article number: 39248

Inglis, W.G. 1991. Mammalakis n. g. and Mammalakinae n. subfam. (Nematoda: Heterakoidea: Kiwinematidae): parasites of mole rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae and spalacidae). Syst Parasitol 20:m 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00007385

Inglis, W.G. and Harris, E.A. 1990. Kiwinematidae n. fam. (Nematoda) for Kiwinema ng and Hatterianema Chabaud & Dollfus, 1966: heterakoids of native New Zealand vertebrates. Systematic Parasitology 15:75-79.

Junker, K., Lutermann, H. and Mutafchiev, Y., 2017.  A new ascaridid nematode, Mammalakis zambiensis n. sp. (Heterakoidea: Kiwinematidae), from the mole rat Fukomys anselli (Burda, Zima, Scharff, Macholán & Kawalika) (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) in Zambia. Syst Parasitol 94:557-566. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-017-9721-9

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