Raphidascaris

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Ascaridida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Cycloneuralia Cladus: Nematoida Phylum: Nematoda Classis: Chromadorea Ordo: Rhabditida Subordo: Spirurina Infraordo: Ascaridomorpha

Familia: Anisakidae
Genus: Raphidascaris
Subgenera (3): Ichthyascaris – Raphidascaris – Sprentascaris
Raised to genus rank according to WoRMS

Species: R. acentrogobii – R. acus – R. cyprini – R. lutiani – R. macrouri – R. mundeswariensis – R. wangi

Name

Raphidascaris Railliet & Henry, 1915: 271

• Type species: Ascaris acus Bloch, 1779 = Raphidascaris acus (Bloch, 1779)

Synonymy

• Neogoezia Kreis, 1937

References

Primary references

• Railliet, A. & Henry, A. 1915. Sur les Nématodes du genre Goezia Zeder. Bulletin de la Société de pathologie exotique 8(5): 270–275. Online. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Ailán-Choke, L.G., Ramallo, G. & Davies, D. 2017. New species of Raphidascaris (Sprentascaris) (Nematoda: Anisakidae) in Rineloricaria steinbachi (Actinopterygii: Loricariidae) from Northwest Argentina. Zootaxa 4231(1): 129–136. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.10. Reference page. 
• Moravec, F. & Nagasawa, K. (2002) Redescription of Raphidascaris gigi Fujita, 1928 (Nematoda: Anisakidae), a parasite of freshwater fishes in Japan. Systematic Parasitology 52: 193–198. DOI: 10.1023/a:1015785602488