Metastrongylus

Metastrongylus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Family: Metastrongylidae
Genus: Metastrongylus
Molin, 1861
Species

M. elongatus (Dujardin, 1845) syn. M. apri
M. pudentodectus (Wostokow, 1905)
M. salmi (Gedoelst, 1823)
M. confusus (Jansen, 1964)
M. asymmetricus (Noda, 1973)

Metastrongylus is a genus of nematodes of the family Metastrongylidae, usually found as lungworms in pigs and sometimes causing parasitic bronchitis. It causes a disease called metastrongylosis.