Camallanida

Taxobox


name = Camallanida
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Nematoda
classis = Secernentea
subclassis = Spiruria
ordo = Camallanida
ordo_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
*Anguillicolidae
*Camallanidae
*Dracunculidae
*Micropleudidae
*Philometridae
synonyms =Camallanina

The Camallanida are an order of nematodes.
* Parasites of terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates
* Copepods as obligatory secondary hosts

They are sometimes included in the Spirurida as a suborder Camallanina.

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