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Paracapillaria

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Paracapillaria
Paracapillaria philippinensis, egg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Enoplea
Order: Enoplida
Family: Capillariidae
Genus: Paracapillaria
Mendonça, 1963

Paracapillaria is a genus of parasitic nematodes. Species of the genus Paracapillaria parasitise fishes and amphibians, reptiles (snakes), and a single species, Paracapillaria philippinensis (Chitwood, Velasquez & Salazar, 1968) (often referred to as Capillaria philippinensis), is known from birds and mammals including man.[1]

There are about a dozen species parasites in fish, such as Paracapillaria rhamdiae Moravec, González-Solís & Vargas-Vásquez, 1995.[2] or Paracapillaria gastrica Moravec & Justine, 2020 [1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2020). "Paracapillaria (Paracapillaria) gastrica n. sp. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) from the marine fish Synodus variegatus Lacépède (Synodontidae, Aulopiformes) off New Caledonia" (PDF). Systematic Parasitology. 97 (2): 157–163. doi:10.1007/s11230-020-09907-7. ISSN 0165-5752. PMID 32065371. S2CID 211127665.
  2. ^ Moravec, F.; González Solis, D.; Vargas Vázquez, J. (1995). "Paracapillaria rhamdiae sp. n. (Nematoda: Capillariidae) from Rhamdia guatemalensis (Pisces) in Yucatan, Mexico". Parasite. 2 (2S): 235–238. doi:10.1051/parasite/199502s2235. ISSN 1252-607X. Open access icon