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Guerrerostrongylus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Chromadorea

Family
  
Heligmonellidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Nematoda

Order
  
Rhabditida

Subfamily
  
Nippostrongylinae

Guerrerostrongylus

Similar
  
Oecomys, Trichostrongyloidea, Nectomys, Oligoryzomys, Sigmodontinae

Guerrerostrongylus is a genus of nematode worms. Species of Guerrerostrongylus infect mostly the digestive tract of sigmodontine and caviomorph rodents from South America. The genus is part of the subfamily Nippostrongylinae.

Species include:

  • Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991 (type-species)
  • Guerrerostrongylus zetta (Travassos, 1937)
  • Guerrerostrongylus gomesae Simões, dos Santos and Maldonado, 2012
  • Guerrerostrongylus ulysi Digiani, Notarnicola, and Navone, 2012
  • Guerrerostrongylus marginalis Weirich, Catzeflis, and Jiménez, 2016

    • References

    Guerrerostrongylus Wikipedia
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