Title: Ascarididae - Wikipedia
Headings: Ascarididae
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Content: Ascarididae
Baird, 1853
The Ascarididae are a family of the large intestinal roundworms. Members of the family are intestinal parasites, infecting all classes of vertebrates. It includes a number of genera, the most well known of which are: Amplicaecum
Angusticaecum
Ascaris
† Ascarites (fossil)
Baylisascaris
Crossophorus
Dujardinascaris
Hexametra
Lagaochilascaris
Ophidascaris
Parascaris
Polydelphis
Seuratascaris
Toxascaris
Toxocara
Travassoascaris
Ascaris lumbricoides is the main ascarid parasite of humans, causing ascariasis . References
^ Okulewicz A, Lonc E (2001). " New/old opinions on the systematics and phylogenesis of the nematodes, with the special regard to Ascaridida, Ascaridoidea". Wiad Parazytol. 47 (3): 263–268. PMID 16894732.