Cyclostrongylus

Cyclostrongylus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Superfamily: Strongyloidea
Family: Chabertiidae
Subfamily: Cloacininae
Genus: Cyclostrongylus
Johnston & Mawson, 1939
Species
  • Cyclostrongylus alatus
  • Cyclostrongylus elegans
  • Cyclostrongylus irma
  • Cyclostrongylus kartana
  • Cyclostrongylus leptos
  • Cyclostrongylus medioannulatus
  • Cyclostrongylus parma
  • Cyclostrongylus perplexus
  • Cyclostrongylus wallabiae
Synonyms

Oesophagonastes Mawson, 1965

Cyclostrongylus is a genus of parasitic nematodes. Species are oesophageal parasites of wallabies in Australia.[1]

Cyclostrongylus alatus and Cyclostrongylus perplexus are parasites of Macropus rufogriseus, the red-necked wallaby.

References

  1. Phylogenetic relationships of species of the oesophageal parasitic nematode genera Cyclostrongylus and Spirostrongylus (Strongyloidea: Chabertiidae: Cloacininae) with their wallaby hosts (Marsupialia: Macropodidae). Neil B. Chilton, Florence Huby-Chilton, Anson V. Koehler, Robin B. Gasser and Ian Beveridge; Molecular and Cellular Probes, Volume 30, Issue 2, April 2016, Pages 93–99, doi:10.1016/j.mcp.2016.01.004

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