Metastrongylus | |
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Scientific 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 |
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.