Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Nematoda |
Class: | Chromadorea |
Order: | Rhabditida |
Family: | Heligmonellidae |
Genus: | Hassalstrongylus |
Species: | H. lichtenfelsi
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Binomial name | |
Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi Durette-Desset, 1974
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Hassalstrongylus lichtenfelsi is a nematode worm of the genus Hassalstrongylus that infects the marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) in Florida. [1] The females cannot be distinguished from those of the other species in the marsh rice rat, H. forresteri and H. musculi. [2]