Family Quimperiidae

                                 Revised 09/17/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

             Order Rhabditida
             Suborder Spirurina
             Superfamily Seuratoidea
Quimperiidae (Gendre, 1928) Baylis, 1928

A family of nematode parasites of fish, especially eels and catfish; rarely reported from amphibians.

Most genera in the family have:


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References

Moravec, F., Kohn, A., Fwernandes, B.M.M. 1992. Neoparaseuratun travassosi n.h, n.sp. (Nematoda: Quimperiidae), a new parasite from thorny catfish Pterododas granulosus in Brazil. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro 87, Suppl 1., 145-150.

Solkolov, S.G., Malysheva, S.Y. 2017. Molecular characterization of Ichtyobronema hamulatum (Moulton, 1931) (Nematoda: Quimperiidae), a common parasite of burbot Lota lota (Linnaeus) (Actinopterygii: Lotidae). Helminthologia 54:183-188.

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