Family Spirocercidae
Rev.
03/10/2020
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Phylum
Nematoda
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Class
Chromadorea
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Subclass
Spiruria
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Order
Spirurida
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Superfamily
Spiruroidea
Spirocercidae Chabaud, 1975
Parasites of Vertebrates:
Stomach parasites of mammals, birds and reptiles - reported from lizards, cats, dogs, birds, rodents,
cougars and others.
Chabaud (1975) separated the family Spirocercidae from
the Spiruridae on the basis of the buccal capsule being laterally flattened in
Spiruridae but not in Spirocercidae,, the mouth being dorso-ventrally elongate
in the Spiruridae but hexagonal in the Spirocercidae, and the absence of teeth
the buccal capsule of Spiruridae but generally present in Spirocercidae.
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References
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Chabaud, A.G. (1975) No. 3. Keys to genera of the order Spirurida. Part. 2.
Spiruroidea, Habronematoidea and Acuaroidea. pp. 29–58 in Anderson, R.C.,
Chabaud, A.G. & Willmott, S. (Eds) CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of
vertebrates. Farnham Royal, Bucks, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux.
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Schuster, R.K., Wibbelt, G., Jörg Kinne. 2014.
On the life cycle and morphology of development
stages of Paraspiralatus
sakeri Gibbons et al., 2004 (Nematoda:
Spiroidea, Spirocercidae), a heteroxenic stomach parasite of falcons.
Parasitology Research
113:2047–2051.
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