Family Tetrameridae

                                 Revised 10/15/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

  Class Chromadorea

    Subclass Chromadoria

Order Rhabditida

               Suborder Spirurina

        Superfamily Habronematoidea

                    Tetrameridae Travassos, 1914

Nematode parasites of birds and aquatic mammals, cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises).

Subfamilies:

The term tetrameridosis is applied to diseases of wild and domestic birds caused by nematodes of the genera Tetrameres, Microtetrameres and Geopetitia (Kinsella and Forrester, 2009).


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References

Kinsella, J.M. and Forrester, D.J. 2008. Tetrameridosis. Chapter 21 in Atkinson, C.T., Thomas, N.J., Hunter, D.B. Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds. Wiley-Blackwell/

 

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