Agfa (nematode)

Agfa is a genus of parasitic nematodes in the family Agfidae. Species are parasiting in land gastropods.

Agfa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Nematoda
Class:
Secernentea
Order:
Rhabditida
Family:
Agfidae
Genus:
Agfa

Chitwood, 1935[1]
Synonyms

Leptodera Dujardin, 1844
Leptoderes Dujardin, 1844

Species
  • Agfa flexilis (Dujardin, 1845)[2]
  • Agfa morandi Ribas & Casanova, 2002[3]
  • Agfa tauricus Korol & Spiridonov, 1991[4]

References
  1. Chitwood (1935). Proc. Helminth. Soc. Washington 2: 53.
  2. Dujardin F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. xvi, 654+15 pp. Page 109. + Plates: plate 4, figure A. (not plate 6)
  3. Ribas A. & Casanova J. (2002). "Agfa morandi sp. n. (Rhabditida, Agfidae) a parasite of Limax sp. (Gastropoda, Limacidae)". Parasitology Research 88(8): 745-747. doi:10.1007/s00436-002-0660-1.
  4. Korol E. N. & Spiridonov S. E. (1991). "Angiostoma kimmeriensis sp. n. and Agfa tauricus sp. n.—parasitic Rhabditida (Nematoda) from Crimean terrestrial mollusks". Helminthologica 28: 179–182.


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