Ascarididae

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Ascarididae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Superfamily: Ascaridoidea
Family: Ascarididae
Baird, 1853

The Ascarididae are a family of the large intestinal roundworms. Members of the family are intestinal parasites, infecting all classes of vertebrates. [1] [2] It includes a number of genera, [3] the most well known of which are:

Ascaris lumbricoides is the main ascarid parasite of humans, causing ascariasis.

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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 (10): 1421–1442. doi:10.1017/S0031182007002880. PMID   17506928. S2CID   2182134.
  3. ↑ Anderson RC (2000). Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates. Their Development and Transmission, 2nd ed. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 245-315. ISBN   0-85199-421-0
  4. ↑ Poinar Jr, G. and Boucot, A. J. (2006) Evidence of intestinal parasites of dinosaurs. Parasitology, 133: 245-249.
  5. ↑ Sprent, J. F. A. (1985). "Ascaridoid Nematodes of Amphibians and Reptiles: Seuratascaris n. g." Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 60 (3): 231–246. doi: 10.1051/parasite/1985603231 . ISSN   0003-4150. Open Access logo PLoS transparent.svg
  6. ↑ Gu, Xiao-Hong; Mu, Jia-Tong; Chen, Hui-Xia; Li, Liang (2025). "Integrated evidence reveals a new subspecies of the genus Seuratascaris (Nematoda: Ascaridomorpha), with characterization of the complete mitochondrial genome". Parasite. 32: 14. doi:10.1051/parasite/2025008. ISSN   1776-1042. PMC   11852783 . PMID   39996964.


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