Aelurostrongylus abstrusus
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Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is a species of nematode
from the family Metastrongylidae
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s include:
Final hosts include:
Nematode
The nematodes or roundworms are the most diverse phylum of pseudocoelomates, and one of the most diverse of all animals. Nematode species are very difficult to distinguish; over 28,000 have been described, of which over 16,000 are parasitic. It has been estimated that the total number of nematode...
from the family Metastrongylidae
Metastrongylidae
Metastrongylidae is a family of nematodes.Genera in the family Metastrongylidae include:* Aelurostrongylus*Metastrongylus*Skrjabingylus...
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Hosts
Intermediate hostIntermediate host
A secondary host or intermediate host is a host that harbors the parasite only for a short transition period, during which some developmental stage is completed. For trypanosomes, the cause of sleeping sickness, humans are the primary host, while the tsetse fly is the secondary host...
s include:
- land snail Achatina fulica
- land snail Thelidomus asperaThelidomus asperaThelidomus aspera is a species of air-breathing land snail, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Pleurodontidae.- Distribution :It occurs in Jamaica....
Final hosts include:
- cats (family FelidaeFelidaeFelidae is the biological family of the cats; a member of this family is called a felid. Felids are the strictest carnivores of the thirteen terrestrial families in the order Carnivora, although the three families of marine mammals comprising the superfamily pinnipedia are as carnivorous as the...
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Further reading
- Ash L. R. (1970) "Diagnostic morphology of the third-stage larvae of Angiostrongylus cantonensis, Angiostrongylus vasorum, Aelurostrongylus abstrusus, and Anafilaroides rostratus (Nematoda: Metastrongyloidea)". Journal of Parasitology 56(2): 249. .