Family Roqueidae

                                 Revised 01/26/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Enoplea

    Subclass Dorylaimia

              Order Dorylaimida

           Suborder Dorylaimina

          Superfamily Belondiroidea

The family Roqueidae is variously considered a synonym of Belondiridae or Swangeridae

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References

Dougherty, E.C. 1955. The Genera and Species of the Subfamily Rhabditinae Micoletzky, 1922 (Nematoda): a Nomenclatorial Analysis�including an Addendum on the Composition of the Family Rhabditidae Oerley, 1880. J. Helminthology 29:105-152.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022149X00024317

Ivanova, E.S., Wilson, M.J. 2009. Two new species of Angiostoma Dujardin, 1845 (Nematoda: Angiostomatidae) from British terrestrial molluscs. Syst Parasitol 74:113-124. DOI 10.1007/s11230-009-9200-z

Pieterse, A., Malan, A.P., Ross, J.L. 2017. Nematodes that associate with terrestrial molluscs as definitive hosts, including Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita (Rhabditida: Rhabditidae) and its development as a biological molluscicide. J. Helminthol. 91:517-527.

Ross, J.L., Ivanova, E.S., Spiridonov, S.E., Waeyenberge, L., Moens, M., Nicol, G.W., Wilson, M.J. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of slug-parasitic nematodes inferred from 18S rRNA gene sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55:738-743.

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