Camallanida

The Camallanida are an order of nematodes. They are parasites of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates. They also use copepods as obligatory secondary hosts.

Dracunculidae is a family of parasitic nematodes belonging to the order Camallanida. All Dracunculidae are obligate tissue parasites of reptiles, birds, or mammals.

Camallanus is a genus of parasitic roundworms in the family Camallanidae.

thumb | right | Procamallanus sp. on Tandanus tandanus Procamallanus is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Camallanidae.

species of nematode

Philometridae is a family of nematodes belonging to the order Rhabditida. All Philometridae are obligate tissue parasites of fish.

Philometra is a genus of nematodes, which are parasites of marine and freshwater fishes. The genus was erected by Oronzio Gabriele Costa in 1845.