Ascarididae
Ascarididae is a family of the large intestinal roundworms. Members of the family are intestinal parasites infect all classes of vertebrates.".[1][2] It includes a number genera,[3] the most well known of which are
- Amplicaecum
- Angusticaecum
- Ascaris
- Baylisascaris
- Crossophorus
- Dujardinascaris
- Hexametra
- Lagaochilascaris
- Ophidascaris
- Parascaris
- Polydelphis
- Seuratascaris
- Toxascaris
- Toxocara
- Travassoascaris
References
- ^ Okulewicz A, Lonc E (2001). "New/old opinions on the systematics and phylogenesis of the nematodes, with the special regard to Ascaridida, Ascaridoidea". Wiad Parazytol. 47 (3): 263–268. PMID 16894732.
- ^ Nadler SA, Carreno RA, Mejia-Madrid H, Ullberg J, Pagan C, Houston R, Hugot JP (2007). "Molecular phylogeny of clade III nematodes reveals multiple origins of tissue parasitism". Parasitology 134: 1421–1442. doi:10.1017/S0031182007002880.
- ^ Anderson RC (2000). Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates. Their Development and Transmission, 2nd ed. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 245-315. ISBN 0851994210
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