Family Skrjabillanidae

Revised 10/23/22

Nematoda
Chromadorea
    Rhabditida
     Spirurina
       Dracunculoidea
Skrjabillanidae Shigin & Shigina, 1958

A nematode family tht inlcudes fish parasites with fish lice (carp lice, Argulus sp. - crustacean parasites of fish) as intermediate hosts of some taxa.
Approximately 20% of two species of Argulus from the Caspian Sea were found with juveniles of Skrjabillanidae. In laboratory studies, the fish life were shown to be intermedaite hosts for the nematodes (Tikhomirova, 1983).

References

Tikhomirova, V.A. 1983. Carp lice - intermediate hosts of Skrjabillanidae nematodes.  Kalinin State Univ., Kalinin, USSR. (in Rusian)

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