Thelaziidae
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| Thelaziidae | |
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| Male Thelazia callipaeda | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Superfamily: | Thelazioidea |
| Family: | Thelaziidae Skrjabin, 1915 |
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About 7, see text | |
Thelaziidae is a family of spirurian nematodes, which form the mid-sized lineage of the superfamily Thelazioidea. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory system.
They number seven genera or so, with a few dozen species all together. Mostly parasites of birds, a few have also been found in other vertebrates.[1]
