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Nemys taxon details

Falcaustra Lane, 1915

991227  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:991227)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nematoda (Phylum)
  4. Chromadorea (Class)
  5. Chromadoria (Subclass)
  6. Rhabditida (Order)
  7. Spirurina (Suborder)
  8. Ascaridomorpha (Infraorder)
  9. Cosmocercoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Kathlaniidae (Family)
  11. Kathlaniinae (Subfamily)
  12. Falcaustra (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Florencioia Travassos, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Zanclophorus Baylis & Daubney, 1922 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym )

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  1. Species Falcaustra annandalei (Baylis & Daubney, 1922) Chabaud & Golvan, 1957
  2. Species Falcaustra barbi Baylis & Daubney, 1922
  3. Species Falcaustra bengalensis Manna & Mahapatra, 1989
  4. Species Falcaustra brevicaudata (Khan & Yaseen, 1969) Soota, 1983
  5. Species Falcaustra chauhani (Soota, 1975) Petter, 1979
  6. Species Falcaustra chiloscyllii (Thwaite, 1927) Soota, 1983
  7. Species Falcaustra congoensis Bursey, Goldberg, Kusamba & Greenbaum, 2018
  8. Species Falcaustra desilvai Bursey, Goldberg & Bauer, 2009
  9. Species Falcaustra dubia Yuen, 1963
  10. Species Falcaustra duyagi (Tubangui & Villaamil, 1933) Freitas & Lent, 1941
  11. Species Falcaustra falcata (Linstow, 1906) Lane, 1915
  12. Species Falcaustra fernandoi (Sathananthan, 1972) Baker, 1987
  13. Species Falcaustra greineri Bursey & Kinsella, 2003
  14. Species Falcaustra heosemydis Bursey, Goldberg & Miller, 2004
  15. Species Falcaustra hexapapillata (Khalil, 1962) Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973
  16. Species Falcaustra inglisi (Anderson, 1964), Baker, 1980
  17. Species Falcaustra kalasiensis (Karve & Naik, 1951) Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973
  18. Species Falcaustra kaverii (Karve & Naik, 1951) Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973
  19. Species Falcaustra kempi (Baylis & Daubney, 1922) Chabaud & Golvan, 1957
  20. Species Falcaustra khadrai (Karve, 1941) Chabaud & Golvan, 1957
  21. Species Falcaustra kinsellai Bursey & Freeman, 2005
  22. Species Falcaustra kutcheri Bursey, Platt & Rainwater, 2000
  23. Species Falcaustra leptocephala Baylis & Daubney, 1922
  24. Species Falcaustra malaysiaia Bursey, Goldberg & Grismer, 2014
  25. Species Falcaustra manouriacola Bursey & Rivera, 2009
  26. Species Falcaustra mascula (Rudolphi, 1819) Freitas & Lent, 1941
  27. Species Falcaustra nilgiriensis (Soota & Chaturvedi, 1971) Petter, 1979
  28. Species Falcaustra onama (Karve, 1927) Freitas & Lent, 1941
  29. Species Falcaustra pahangi Yuen, 1963
  30. Species Falcaustra pillaii (Sathananthan, 1972) Baker, 1987
  31. Species Falcaustra piscicola (von Linstow, 1907) Inglis, 1959
  32. Species Falcaustra purchoni Yuen, 1963
  33. Species Falcaustra purvisi (Baylis, 1933) Chabaud & Golvan, 1957
  34. Species Falcaustra rangoonica (Chatterji, 1936) Freitas & Lent, 1941
  35. Species Falcaustra roberti (Chou & Lowe, 1984) Bursey & Kinsella, 2003
  36. Species Falcaustra samarensis Bursey, Goldberg, Slier & Brown, 2020
  37. Species Falcaustra sanjuanensis Gonzalez, Sanabria & Quiroga, 2013
  38. Species Falcaustra siamensis Baylis, 1920
  39. Species Falcaustra similis Moravec & Van As, 2004
  40. Species Falcaustra stewarti Baylis & Daubney, 1922
  41. Species Falcaustra stromateii (Bilqees & Khanum, 1971) Soota, 1983
  42. Species Falcaustra tchadi Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973
  43. Species Falcaustra testudinis Baylis & Daubney, 1922
  44. Species Falcaustra tintlwini Bursey & Platt, 2018
  45. Species Falcaustra tricirratus (Linstow, 1901) Baker, 1987
  46. Species Falcaustra trilokiae (Singh, 1958) Chabaud, 1978
  47. Species Falcaustra mirandafroesi (Fortes, 1981) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  48. Species Falcaustra stellionis (Chatin, 1875) Chabuad & Golvan, 1957 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  49. Species Falcaustra brevicaudatum (Khan & Yaseen, 1969) Soota, 1983 accepted as Falcaustra brevicaudata (Khan & Yaseen, 1969) Soota, 1983 (Malformed suffix)
  50. Species Falcaustra guiersi Vassiliadis, 1973 accepted as Falcaustra hexapapillata (Khalil, 1962) Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  51. Species Falcaustra kaverii (Karve & Naik, 1951) Soota, 1983 accepted as Falcaustra kaverii (Karve & Naik, 1951) Vassiliades & Troncy, 1973 (Superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Not documented
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Falcaustra Lane, 1915. Accessed at: https://www.nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php/images/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=991227 on 2026-01-14
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2017-05-02 10:32:14Z
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Gibson, David
2020-01-07 11:39:36Z
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Gibson, David
2020-01-08 11:17:25Z
changed
Gibson, David

taxonomy source Bursey, C. R.; Goldberg, S. R.; Siler, C. D.; Brown, R. M. (2020). New Species of Falcaustra (Nematoda: Kathlaniidae) and Other Helminths in Megophrys stejnegeri (Anura: Megophryidae) from Samar Island, Philippines. <em>Comparative Parasitology.</em> 87(1): 4-11., available online at https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-87.1.4 [details] 

taxonomy source Bursey, C. R.; Platt, S. G.; Rainwater, T. R. (2000). Falcaustra kutcheri n. sp. (Nematoda: Kathlaniidae) from Geoemyda yuwonoi (Testudines: Emydidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. <em>The Journal of Parasitology.</em> 86(2): 344., available online at https://doi.org/10.2307/3284780 [details] 

additional source Santillán, S.; Lopez, D.; Mondragón-Martínez, A.; Martínez-Rojas, R.; Cruces, C. L.; Chero, J. D. (2025). A new species of Falcaustra Lane, 1915 (Nematoda: Kathlaniidae) from the Titicaca water frog Telmatobius culeus (Garman) (Anura: Telmatobiidae) in Peru. <em>Systematic Parasitology.</em> 102(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-025-10244-w [details] 
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