Title: Ascarididae - Wikipedia
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Ascarididae
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Family of roundworms
Ascarididae

Toxocara cati
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Ascaridida
Family: 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
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