WoRMS taxon details
Physalopteroidea Railliet, 1893
- Family Physalopteridae Railliet, 1893
- Family Proleptidae Schulz, 1927
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Railliet, A. (1893). Traité de Zoologie Médicale et Agricole. Deuxième Édition. Asselin et Houzeau, Paris. [details] 
Nemys eds. (2026). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Physalopteroidea Railliet, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22838 on 2026-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
Railliet, A. (1893). Traité de Zoologie Médicale et Agricole. Deuxième Édition. Asselin et Houzeau, Paris. [details]
basis of record Anderson, R. C.; Chabaud, A. G.; Willmott, S. (1974). CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. i-x. [details]
basis of record Anderson, R. C.; Chabaud, A. G.; Willmott, S. (1974). CIH Keys to the nematode parasites of vertebrates. i-x. [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Sun, M.; Yousaf, M. A.; Harras, S.; Gibson, D. I.; Chen, H.-X.; Elmahy, R. A.; Li, L. (2025). Molecular phylogenies provide insights into the evolutionary relationships of the Spirurida (Nematoda), with special emphasis on the superfamily Physalopteroidea. <em>Parasites & Vectors.</em> 18(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13071-025-07097-z [details]
taxonomy source De Ley, P.; Blaxter, M. L. (2004). A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa. <em>Nematology Monographs & Perspectives - Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Nematology 8 - 13 June 2002, Tenerife, Spain.</em> 2: 633-653., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004475236_061 [details] Available for editors
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taxonomy source De Ley, P.; Blaxter, M. L. (2004). A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa. <em>Nematology Monographs & Perspectives - Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Nematology 8 - 13 June 2002, Tenerife, Spain.</em> 2: 633-653., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004475236_061 [details] Available for editors
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context source (PeRMS)
Luque, J.L., C. Cruces, J. Chero, F. Paschoal, P.V. Alves, A.C. Silva, L. Sanchez & J. Iannacone. (2016). Lista de verificación de los metazoos parásitos de peces de Perú. [Checklist of metazoan parasites of fishes from Peru.]. <em>Neotropical Helminthology.</em> 10(2):301-375., available online at https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh2016102751 [details] Available for editors [request]
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