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Classification:

Phylum:  Nematoda
Class:    Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Order:    Rhabditida 

Superfamily:  Strongyloidea

Family:  Chabertiidae

Subfamily: Phascolostrongylinae

Tribe: Hypodontinea

Macropicola

Type species of the genus  Macropicola

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Macropicola

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References:

Beveridge, I., Mawson, P.M. 1978. A Taxonomic Revision of the Genera Macropicola Yamaguti and Param~cropostrongylus Johnston & Mawson (Nematoda : Trichonematidae) from Australian Marsupials. Australian J. Zoology 26:763-787.

Beveridge, I., Spratt, D.M.  and Durette-Desset, M-C. 2014. Order Strongylida (Railliet and Henry, 1913). In Schmidt-Raesa, A. (ed). Handbook of Zoology: Gastroctricha, Cycloneurelia and Gnathifera. Vol 2. Nematoda. De Gruyter, Berlin

Johnston, T.H., and Mawson, P.M. 194). Nematodes from South Australia. Trans. R. Soc. South Australia 64:95-100.

Mawson, P.M. 1955. Some parasites of Australian vertebrates. Trans. R. Soc. SSouth Australia 78:1-7.

Sukee, T.; Beveridge, I.; Jabbar, A. 2021. Torquenema n. g., Wallabicols n. g., and Macropicola phascolomys n. sp.: New Genera and a New Species of Nematode (Strongylida: Phascolostrongylinae) Parasitic in Australian Macropodid and Vombatid Marsupials. Animals 2021, 11, 175. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/ani11010175

Yamaguti, S. 1961. 'Systema Helminthum. Vol. 111. The Nematodes of Vertebrates'. (Interscience Publishers: New York.)

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