Family Ascaridiidae

                                 Revised 05/29/26

Classification:

Phylum Nematoda

Ascaridiidae Travassos, 1919

• A family of nematodes that are mainly intestinal parasites of birds.

• Nematodes with direct lifecycles, no intermediate hosts, and are primarily parasites of the intestinal tract.

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References

Guo-Hua Liu G-H., Steven A. Nadler, Shan-Shan Liu, Magdalena Podolska4 Stefano DeAmelio, Renfu Shao, Robin B.Gasser & Xing-Quan Zhu. 2016. Mitochondrial Phylogenomics yields Strongly Supported Hypotheses for Ascaridomorph Nematodes.Nature Scientific Reports 6:Article number: 39248

Jimenez-Ruiz, F.A. 2024. Heterakoidea (Superfamily): Cosmopolitan Gut-Dwelling Parasites of Tetrapods. Chapter 51 in S. L. Gardner and S. A. Gardner, eds. Concepts in Animal Parasitology. Zea Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. doi:10.32873/unl.dc.ciap053

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