Family:
Metastrongylidae
Revised
01/29/26
Lungworms
- Class Chromadorea
- Subclass Chromadoria
- Order Rhabditida
- Suborder Rhabditina
- Superfamily Metastrongyloidea
Metastrongylidae
Leiper, 1909
Parasites of respiratory systems of pigs.
- Buccal capsule vestigial
- Mouth opening with two large lateral
trilobed lips
- Female with vulva in posterior region of
body; oviparous; eggs with thick shells with sculptured surface
- Male bursa with large lateral lobes and
reduced dorsal lobe
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Biology and Life Cycle:
Eggs rather than first-stage larvae are passed in feces; earthworms are rwquired
intermediate hosts
(Anderson 2000)
References
Anderson, R. C. 2000. Nematode
Parasites of Vertebrates, Their Development and Transmission.
CABI, Wallingford.
Anderson, R.C. 2009. Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates: archival
volume. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781845935726.0178
Beveridge, I., Spratt, D.M. and Durette-Desset, M-C. 2014. Order
Strongylida (Railliet and Henry, 1913). In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of
Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De
Gruyter, Berlin
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