Parachordodes Explained

Parachordodes is a genus of worms belonging to the family Chordodidae.^[1]

The species of this genus are found in Europe and East Asia.^{[2] [3]}

Several cases of human infections have been reported in South Korea, Japan.

Species:

• Parachordodes arndti
• Parachordodes capitosulcatus
• Parachordodes ciferrii
• Parachordodes lestici ^[4]
• Parachordodes megareolatus
• Parachordodes okadai ^{[5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Parachordodes Camerano, 1897-05 . www.gbif.org . 7 April 2021 . en.
2. Web site: Andreas Schmidt-Rhaesa . Pyung-Rim Chung . Woon-Mok Sohn . Parachordodes megareolatus, a New Species of Horsehair Worm(Nematomorpha: Gordioida: Gordea) from Korea . koreascience.or.kr . The Korean Society of Systematic Zoology (한국동물분류학회) . 24 November 2021 . en,ko . 2003-10-01.
3. Web site: Yamada . Minoru . Tegoshi . Tatsuya . Abe . Niichiro . Urabe . Misako . Two Human Cases Infected by the Horsehair Worm, Parachordodes sp. (Nematomorpha: Chordodidae), in Japan . The Korean Journal of Parasitology . 24 November 2021 . 263–267 . en . 10.3347/kjp.2012.50.3.263 . 13 August 2012.
4. Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (2019). FADA Nematomorpha: World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species (version Dec 2010). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2019 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds.). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/annual-checklist/2019. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-884X.
5. Heinze, K. (1935). Weitere neue Parachordodes-Arten aus Asien. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 112, 155-158.
6. Mayr, E. (2015). Principles of systematic zoology. Scientific Publishers.