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  Superfamily Strongyloidea

Family Metastrongylidae

    Genus Metastrongylus

Taxon Information

The Family Metastrongylidae is not recorded from fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Metastrongylidae, "Internal parasites of mammals" (Hodda, 2011).
• Metastrongylidae, (De Ley et al., 2006).

Bibliography

• Hodda, M. 2011. Phylum Nematoda Cobb 1932. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 63-95. [Available online]
• De Ley, P., W. Decraemer & Eualem-Abebe. 2006. Introduction: Summary of present knowledge and research addressing the ecology and taxonomy of freshwater nematodes. [in] Eualem-Abebe et al. (eds.). Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy: 3-30.

Web Pages

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Synopsis of the Described Nematoda of the World
• WikiSpecies
• World Register of Marine Species