Angiostrongylus
Appearance
Angiostrongylus | |
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Adult female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Scale bar is 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nematoda |
Class: | Chromadorea |
Order: | Rhabditida |
Family: | Angiostrongylidae |
Genus: | Angiostrongylus Kamensky, 1905[1] |
Species[2] | |
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Angiostrongylus is a genus of parasitic nematodes in the family Metastrongylidae.
Species
[edit]Species in the genus
- Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935)[3]
- Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Cespedes, 1971[4]
- Angiostrongylus vasorum Baillet, 1866
References
[edit]- ^ Kamensky (1905). Sborn. Trud. Charkov veterin. Inst. 1905.
- ^ "Angiostrongylus". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Chen, H.-T. (1935). "Un nouveau nématode pulmonaire, Pulmonema cantonensis, n. g., n. sp". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 13 (4): 312–317. doi:10.1051/parasite/1935134312.
- ^ Morera, P.; Céspedes, R. (1971). "Angiostrongylus costaricensis n. sp.(Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea), a new lungworm occurring in man in Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 18 (1–2): 173–185.