Durikainema | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nematoda |
Class: | Enoplea |
Order: | Muspiceida |
Family: | Robertdollfusiidae |
Genus: |
Durikainema Spratt & Speare, 1982 |
Type species | |
Durikainema macropi Spratt & Speare, 1982
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Species | |
Durikainema is a genus of two nematodes in the family Robertdollfusiidae. Species have a head with a cuticular cephalic inflation, elongated papillae and amphids, and well-developed musculature. Characteristics of the males include a single spicule and a long attenuated tail. Durikainema species parasitize macropods. [1] The genus was circumscribed in 1982 with the type species Durikainema macropi, [2] a parasite of the eastern grey kangaroo (Macropus giganteus). D. phascolarcti, parasite of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus), was described in 1998. [3]