Angiostrongylus
Angiostrongylus is a genus of parasitic nematodes in the family Metastrongylidae.
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| Adult female worm of Angiostrongylus cantonensis. Scale bar is 1 mm. | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Family: | Angiostrongylidae |
| Genus: | Angiostrongylus Kamensky, 1905[1] |
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Species
Species in the genus
- Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935)[3]
- Angiostrongylus costaricensis Morera & Cespedes, 1971[4]
- Angiostrongylus vasorum Baillet, 1866
References
- Kamensky (1905). Sborn. Trud. Charkov veterin. Inst. 1905.
- "Angiostrongylus". NCBI taxonomy. Bethesda, MD: National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- Chen, H.-T. (1935). "Un nouveau nématode pulmonaire, Pulmonema cantonensis, n. g., n. sp". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée. 13 (4): 312–317. doi:10.1051/parasite/1935134312.
- Morera, P.; Céspedes, R. (1971). "Angiostrongylus costaricensis n. sp.(Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea), a new lungworm occurring in man in Costa Rica". Revista de Biología Tropical. 18 (1–2): 173–185.
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