DANICONEMATIDAE Moravec & Køie, 1987

Arai, Hisao P. & Smith, John W., 2016, Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda, Zootaxa 4185 (1), pp. 1-274 : 38-39

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4185.1.1

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lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0D054EDD-9CDC-4D16-A8B2-F1EBBDAD6E09

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5626632

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038FB248-FF94-FF90-89B9-C14923A39F6C

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scientific name

DANICONEMATIDAE Moravec & Køie, 1987
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Family DANICONEMATIDAE Moravec & Køie, 1987

Family diagnosis (after Moravec 2013). Body thread-like. Head end with pair of prominent labial papillae and eight external paired papillae. Buccal capsule absent. Oesophagus muscular, with long, posteriorly extending, oesophageal gland. Tail of male long, without caudal alae, provided with several pre-cloacal and post-cloacal papillae. Spicules or sclerotized copulatory plate absent. Cloacal opening on special genital projection. Vulva in anterior part of body. Monodelphic. Viviparous. Parasites of eels.

This Family appears to be represented by only one genus, Daniconema .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Nematoda

Class

Chromadorea

Order

Spirurida

SuperFamily

Dracunculoidea

Family

Daniconematidae

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