Physalopteridae is a family of spirurian nematodes,[1] which belongs to the superfamily Physalopteroidea. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory system.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Suborder: | Spirurida |
| Infraorder: | Spiruromorpha |
| Superfamily: | Physalopteroidea |
| Family: | Physalopteridae Railliet, 1893 |
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The Physalopteridae include species which are parasitic in various vertebrates.
Systematics
edit- Subfamily Physalopterinae Railliet, 1893
- Genus Physaloptera Rudolphi, 1819
- Genus Abbreviata Travassos, 1920
- Subfamily Proleptinae Schulz, 1927
- Genus Rasheedia Moravec & Justine, 2018
- Genus Heliconema Travassos, 1919
- Genus Paraleptus Wu, 1927
- Genus Proleptus Dujardin, 1845
References
edit- ^ Railliet, A. (1893). Traité de Zoologie Médicale et Agricole. Deuxième Édition. Asselin et Houzeau, Paris
- ^ Bezerra, T.N.; Decraemer, W.; Eisendle-Flöckner, U.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Mokievsky, V.; Venekey, V.; Vanreusel, A. (2018). NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. Physalopteridae Railliet, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22839 on 2018-08-06
- ^ Moravec, František; Justine, Jean-Lou (2018). "Rasheedia n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for Bulbocephalus Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of Bulbocephalus Watson, 1916), with description of Rasheedia heptacanthi n. sp. and R. novaecaledoniensis n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia". Parasite. 25: 39. doi:10.1051/parasite/2018033. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 6063723. PMID 30052500.
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