Durikainema
| Durikainema | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| (unranked): | Bilateria |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Enoplea |
| Order: | Muspiceida |
| Superfamily: | Muspiceoidea |
| Family: | Robertdollfusidae |
| Genus: | Durikainema Spratt & Speare, 1982 |
| Type species | |
| Durikainema macropi Spratt & Speare, 1982 | |
| Species | |
Durikainema is a genus of two nematodes in the family Robertdollfusidae. Species have a head with a cuticular cephalic inflation, elongated papillae and amphids, and well-developed musculature. Characteristics of the males include a single spicule and a long attenuated tail. Durikainema species parasitize macropods.[1] The genus was circumscribed in 1982 with the type species Durikainema macropi, a parasite of the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). D. phascolarcti, parasite of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), was described in 1998.[2]
References
- ↑ Anderson RC, Chabaud AG, Willmott S. (2009). Keys to the Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates: Archival Volume. CABI. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-84593-572-6.
- ↑ Spratt DM, Gill PA. (1998). "Durikainema phascolarcti n. sp. (Nematoda: Muspiceoidea: Robertdollfusidae) from the pulmonary arteries of the koala Phascolarctos cinereus with associated pathological changes". Systematic Parasitology 39: 101–6. doi:10.1023/A:1005957809179.
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