Family Soboliphymatidae

                                 Revised 01/26/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Enoplea

    Subclass Dorylaimia

   Order Dioctophymatida

   Suborder Dioctophymatina

Superfamily Dioctophymatoidea

 

Soboliphymatidae Petrov, 1930

   

A family of nematode parasites of the stomach of mammals in the families Soricidae (shrews) and Mustelidae (weasels, badgers, ferrets and others), especially insectivores.

Mouth opening in the center of a large cephalic sucker

The family is represented by a single genus: Soboliphyme.


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References

Koehler, Anson V.A.; Hoberg, Eric P.; Torres-Pérez, Fernando; and Cook, Joseph A. 2009. A Molecular View of the Superfamily Dioctophymatoidea (Nematoda) Comp. Parasitol. 76:100–104.

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