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Dioctophymidae

Dioctophymidae

Field notes

Dioctophymidae is a family of nematodes belonging to the order Ascaridida. Much older literature uses the alternative spelling "Dioctophymatidae" but this alternative spelling was suppressed by the ICZN in a 1987 ruling.

Genera:

Dioctophyme Collet-Meygret, 1802

Eustrongylides Jägerskiöld, 1909

Hystrichis Dujardin, 1844

Neostrongyloides Rathore & Nama, 1988

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