Family Physalopteridae

                                 Revised 01/23/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

Physalopteridae Leiper, 1908 (?or Railliet, 1893)

• ·         A family of nematode parasites of fish, lizards and snakes with insects as intermediate hosts.

• ·         Head cuticle refleted to form a cephslic collar

• ·         Mouth with 2 lateral lips, each with a median conical tooth and a small subdorsal and subventral tooth

• ·         Esophagus with smaller mucular anterior and a large glandular posterior.

Ref: Ogden, 1969.

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References

Bursey, C,R. and Brooks, D.R. 2011. Nematode parasites of Costa Rican snakes (Serpentes) with description of a new species of Abbreviata (Physalopteridae). Comparative Parasitology 78:333–358.

Ogden, C.G. 1969. A revision of the genus Heliconema Travassos, 1919, Physalopteridae (Nematoda). Journal of Natural History, 3:423-431.

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