Ascarididae

Short description: Family of roundworms

Ascarididae

Toxocara cati
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Nematoda
Class:  | Chromadorea
Order:  | Ascaridida
Family:  | Ascarididae
Baird, 1853

The Ascarididae are a family of the large intestinal roundworms. Members of the family are intestinal parasites, infecting all classes of vertebrates.[1][2] It includes a number of genera,[3] the most well known of which are:

* Amplicaecum
* Angusticaecum
* Ascaris
* †Ascarites (fossil)[4]
* Baylisascaris
* Crossophorus
* Dujardinascaris
* Hexametra
* Lagochilascaris
* Ophidascaris
* Parascaris
* Polydelphis
* Seuratascaris [5]
* Toxascaris
* Toxocara
* Travassoascaris

Ascaris lumbricoides is the main ascarid parasite of humans, causing ascariasis.

## References

1. ↑ "New/old opinions on the systematics and phylogenesis of the nematodes, with the special regard to Ascaridida, Ascaridoidea". Wiad Parazytol. 47 (3): 263–268. 2001. PMID 16894732.
2. ↑ "Molecular phylogeny of clade III nematodes reveals multiple origins of tissue parasitism". Parasitology 134: 1421–1442. 2007. doi:10.1017/S0031182007002880. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1752&context=parasitologyfacpubs.
3. ↑ Anderson RC (2000). Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates. Their Development and Transmission, 2nd ed. CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon, UK, pp. 245-315. ISBN:0-85199-421-0
4. ↑ Poinar Jr, G. and Boucot, A. J. (2006) Evidence of intestinal parasites of dinosaurs. Parasitology, 133: 245-249.
5. ↑ Sprent, J. F. A. (1985). "Ascaridoid Nematodes of Amphibians and Reptiles: Seuratascaris n. g.". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparée 60 (3): 231–246. doi:10.1051/parasite/1985603231. ISSN 0003-4150. http://www.parasite-journal.org/articles/parasite/abs/1985/03/parasite1985603p231/parasite1985603p231.html.

## External links

* ZipcodeZoo
* AnimalDiversity Web
* Wildlife Information
* Uniprot Taxonomy
* BioLib
* TAMU
* The Taxonomicon
* Taxonomy at NEHU

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