Family Spiruridae

                                 Revised 01/26/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

Suborder Spirurina

                 Superfamily Spiruroidea

           Spiruridae Oerley, 1885

A nematode family of intestinal parasites of vertebrates with arthropods as intermediate hosts

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

• 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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