Aelurostrongylus falciformis

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Aelurostrongylus falciformis
Posterior end of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in the lungs of a badger. The spicula are visible.

Posterior end of Aelurostrongylus falciformis in the lungs of a badger. The spicula are visible .

Systematics
without rank: Primordial mouths (protostomia)
Over trunk : Molting animals (Ecdysozoa)
Trunk : Roundworms (Nematoda)
Family : Angiostrongylidae
Genre : Aelurostrongylus
Type : Aelurostrongylus falciformis
Scientific name
Aelurostrongylus falciformis
Schlegel , 1933

Aelurostrongylus falciformis is a nematode parasitizingin the lungs of the European badger .

A. falciformis is viviparous. The larvae are excreted in the faeces of the final host . The development of infectious third larvae takes place in various snails ( garden slug , garden banded snail , grove banded snail , gray field snail , common amber snail , Euomphalia strigella , Fruticola hispida ). Infection occurs through the ingestion of infected snails. The prepatency is 21 days.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roy C. Anderson: Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates: Their Development and Transmission . CABI, 2000, ISBN 978-0-85199-786-5 , pp. 164 .

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