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Contracaecum ovale (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920

829094  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:829094)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nematoda (Phylum)
  4. Chromadorea (Class)
  5. Chromadoria (Subclass)
  6. Rhabditida (Order)
  7. Spirurina (Suborder)
  8. Ascaridomorpha (Infraorder)
  9. Ascaridoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Anisakidae (Family)
  11. Contracaecinae (Subfamily)
  12. Contracaecum (Genus)
  13. Contracaecum ovale (Species)
accepted
Species
Contracaecum nehli Karokhin, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)
Contracaecum podicipitis Johnston & Mawson, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)
Contracaecum ruficolle Vuylsteke, 1953 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)
Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)
marine, terrestrial
Not documented
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Contracaecum ovale (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=829094 on 2025-03-26
Date
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2015-01-11 00:08:14Z
created
Shamsi, Shokoofeh
2022-02-09 14:01:51Z
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Gibson, David
2025-03-17 15:07:48Z
changed
Gibson, David

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Nomenclature

original description (of Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950) Mozgovoi AA. (1950). New anisakids of birds. <em>Trudi Gelmintologicheskoi Laboratorii Akademiya Nauk SSSR.</em> 3:90-101. [details] 

basis of record Cram, E. B. (1927). Bird parasites of the nematode suborders Strongylata, Ascaridata, and Spirurata. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> (140): 1-465., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.140.1 [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Presswell, B.; Bennett, J. (2022). Gastrointestinal helminth parasites of the threatened Australasian crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus australis, Gould 1844) in New Zealand, with descriptions of Baruscapillaria kamanae n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichuridae) and Cryptocotyle micromorpha n. sp. (Trematoda: Opisthorchiidae). <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-022-10022-y [details] 

Other

additional source Moravec, F. (2013). Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. <em>Academia, Prague.</em> 601 pp.
note: Larvaa [details] 

additional source Garbin, L. E.; Diaz, J. I.; Servián, A.; Fusaro, B.; Navone, G. T. (2023). The genus Contracaecum Raillet &amp; Henry (Nematoda: Anisakidae): host and geographical distribution on Neotropical and Antarctic species. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5256(1): 43-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.3 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

    Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Contracaecum ovale) 
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Contracaecum podicipitis Johnston & Mawson, 1949)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (1 record) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Contracaecum nehli Karokhin, 1949)
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