Parascaris

Parascaris
Male (top) and female (bottom) P. equorum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Ascaridida
Family: Ascarididae
Genus: Parascaris
Yorke & Maplestone, 1926
Species

Parascaris is a genus of nematodes in the family Ascarididae. It contains two species, Parascaris equorum and Parascaris univalens, which are morphologically identical, but can be distinguished by chromosome number. Both species parasitize horses.[1]

  1. ^ Nielsen, Martin K.; Wang, Jianbin; Davis, Richard; Bellaw, Jennifer L.; Lyons, Eugene T.; Lear, Teri L.; Goday, Clara (2014). "Parascaris univalens—a victim of large-scale misidentification?". Parasitology Research. 113 (12): 4485–4490. doi:10.1007/s00436-014-4135-y. ISSN 0932-0113. PMID 25231078. S2CID 253976230.