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Trichocephalida

Order of roundworms

Trichocephalida
Summary

Order of roundworms

Trichiurida

Capillariidae Railliet, 1915

Cystoopsidae Skrjabin, 1923

Trichinellidae Ward, 1907

Trichosomoididae Hall, 1916

Trichuridae Ransom, 1911

The Trichocephalida (Trichinellida or Trichurida in other classifications) is an order of parasitic nematodes.

Taxonomy

The order Trichocephalida includes, according to modern classifications, the single suborder Trichinellina Hodda, 2007, which itself includes the single superfamily Trichinelloidea Ward, 1907, which itself includes 6 families:

  • Family Anatrichosomatidae Yamaguti, 1961 (1 genus, 5 species) including the single genus Anatrichosoma
  • Family Capillariidae Railliet, 1915 (1 subfamily, 18-22 genera according to classifications, 390 species) including Capillaria
  • Family Cystoopsidae Skrjabin, 1923 (2 subfamilies, 2 genera, 7 species)
  • Family Trichinellidae Ward, 1907 (4 genera, 16 species) including Trichinella
  • Family Trichosomoididae Hall, 1916 (2 subfamilies, 5 genera, 25 species) including Huffmanela
  • Family Trichuridae Ransom, 1911 (1 subfamily, 6 genera, 107 species) including Trichuris

Note that another slightly different arrangement of families exists, with the Family Trichosomoididae including Anatrichosoma in a subfamily Anatrichosomatinae.

Biology

Eucoleus aerophilus]]'', the nematode causing pulmonary [[capillariasis]] in foxes. Bar = 50 μm

All members of this order are histiotrophic, meaning that in at least one stage of their life cycle, they develop in cells or tissues. They are all parasites in vertebrates in their adult stage. The anterior end is narrower than the posterior end in most of these worms, and the esophagus is slender and embedded in cells called stichocytes which form a stichosome. Eggs of members of this order have bipolar or biopercular plugs (except in a few species).

References

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References

  1. Hodda, M. 2011: Phylum Nematoda Cobb 1932. ''In'': Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011: Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. ''Zootaxa'', '''3148''': 63–95. {{ISBN. 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback) {{ISBN. 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition) [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2011/f/zt03148p095.pdf Free PDF]
  2. [[Railliet]], A. 1915: L'emploi des médicaments dans le traitement des maladies causées par des Nématodes. ''Recueil de Médecine Vétérinaire, Paris,'' '''91''', 490–513. [not seen]
  3. Moravec, F. 2001: Trichinelloid Nematodes parasitic in cold-blooded vertebrates. Academia, Praha, 432 pp. (list of genera of Capillariidae in pages 30-32) ({{ISBN. 8020008055)
  4. Hall, M.C. 1916: Nematode parasites of mammals of the orders Rodentia, Lagomorpha and Hyracoidea. Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum, 50, 1–247 [http://biostor.org/reference/58918 Free PDF].
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