Summary
The suborder Ascaridina contains the bulk of the Ascaridida, parasitic roundworms with three "lips" on the anterior end. The Ascaridida were formerly placed in the subclass Rhabditia by some, but morphological and DNA sequence data rather unequivocally assigns them to the Spiruria. The Oxyurida and Rhigonematida are occasionally placed in the Ascaridina as superfamily Oxyuroidea, but while they seem indeed to be Spiruria, they are not as close to Ascaris as such a treatment would place them.[1]
| Ascaridina | |
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| Adult Toxocara canis (Ascaridoidea: Toxocaridae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Ascaridida |
| Suborder: | Ascaridina |
| Superfamilies | |
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5, see text | |
These "worms" contain a number of important parasites of humans and domestic animals, namely in the superfamily Ascaridoidea.
Systematics edit
The Ascaridina contain the following superfamilies and families:[2]
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Superfamily Ascaridoidea
Superfamily Cosmocercoidea Superfamily Heterakoidea
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Superfamily Seuratoidea Superfamily Subuluroidea
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Footnotes edit
References edit
- Systema Naturae 2000 (SN2K) (2008): Suborder Ascaridina[permanent dead link]. Version of 2008-AUG-14. Retrieved 2008-NOV-05.
- Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2002): Nematoda. Version of 2002-JAN-01. Retrieved 2008-NOV-02.