Oesophagostomoides		Contents		Rev 03/21/2026
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		Morphology and Anatomy		Life Cycle
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Classification:

Phylum:  Nematoda
Class:    Chromadorea

Chromadoria

Order:    Rhabditida 

Superfamily:  Strongyloidea

Family:  Chabertiidae

Subfamily: Phascolostrongylinae

Oesophagostomoides

Type species of the genus  Oesophagostomoides

Synonyms:

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Morphology and Anatomy:

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Female:

Body size range for the species of this genus in the database - Click:

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Distribution:

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Economic Importance:

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Hosts:

Parasites of vombats. Oesophagostomoides eppingensis is reported from the colon of the criticall endangered wombat, Lasiorhinus krefftii (Smales, 1994; Sukee et al., 2021).

Feeding:

Food Sources and Feeding strategies for the genus Oesophagostomoides

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References:

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

Smales, L.R. 1994. A new species of Oesophagostomoides (Nematoda: Cloacinidae) from the Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat, Lasiorhinus
krefftii with a key to species of the genus. J. Parasitol.80: 638

Sukee, T.; Beveridge, I.; Sabir, A.J., Jabbar, A. 2021. Phylogenetic Relationships within the Nematode Subfamily Phascolostrongylinae (Nematoda: Strongyloidea) from Australian Macropodid and Vombatid Marsupials. Microorganisms 2021, 9,9. https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9010009

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

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