Guerrerostrongylus

Updated on Dec 18, 2024

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Kingdom Animalia Class Chromadorea Family Heligmonellidae Rank Genus		Phylum Nematoda Order Rhabditida Subfamily Nippostrongylinae

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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