Citellina

Citellina
Citellina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
(unranked): Bilateria
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Secernentea
Subclass: Rhabditia
Family: Oxyuridae
Genus: Citellina
Prendel

Citellina is a worm genus within the Oxyuridae family. Species of this genus typically parasitise marmots and ground squirrels of holarctic distribution.[1] It was initially defined by Prendel in 1928, with the type species Citellina dispar[2]

Citellina triradiata has been recovered from the Spotted Ground Squirrel (Xerospermophilus spilosoma),[3] and Citellina undulata is described from the Long-tailed Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus undulatus).[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Hugot, JP. "The genus Citellina (Oxyuridae, Nematoda)". Annales de Parasitologie Humaine et Comparee. 
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