Family Seuratidae

                                 Revised 01/26/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

                 Suborder Spirurina
                Superfamily Seuratoidea
Seuratidae (Hall, 1916) Railliet, 1906
 

A family of nematode parasites with genera described from a range of host species, including geckos, lizards, marsupials, birds, freshwater fish, ants and worker bees.

All known species of the family are heteroxenous, that is, requiring more than one host to complete the life cycle. The nematodes develop to the adult stage in the digestive tract of vertebrates.


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References

Poinar, G. 2012. .Nematode parasites and associates of ants: past and present. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology Article 192017.

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