Family: Ornithostrongylidae

Revised 02/27/24

Classification:
 

   Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Rhabditida

Rhabditina

Heligmosomoidea

           Ornithostrongylidae (Travassos, 1937) Durrete-Desset & Chabaud, 1981

Two Subfamilies:

• Inglamidinae - intestinal parasites of rodents.
• Orthostrongylinae - intestinal parasites of birds, bats and rodents

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Morphology and Anatomy:

• Buccal capsule well-developed with dorsal tooth or reduced to annulus;
• cephalic vesicle present;
• synlophe symmetrical with respect to frontal axis; careen present or absent;
• bursa of type 2–2-1
• female didelphic or monodelphic;
• female tail with or without spine.

Distribution

Economic Importance:

Hosts:

 Birds, rodents, rabbits and insectivores.

Feeding

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References:

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

Durette-Desset, M-C., Hugot, J.P., Darlu, P. and Chabaud, A.G. 1999. A cladistic analysis of the Trichostrongyloidea. Int. Jour. Parasitol. 21:579-587.

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