Rhabdias Explained

Rhabdias is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Rhabdiasidae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution^[1] and includes over 90 species mainly parasitic in the lungs of amphibians and reptiles.^[2]

Systematics of species of Rhadias is not easy due to the usual absence of males and the morphological similarity in females.^[2]

Species

The genus includes the following species:

• Rhabdias aegyptiaca
• Rhabdias africanus
• Rhabdias alabialis
• Rhabdias ambystomae
• Rhabdias americanus
• Rhabdias androgyna
• Rhabdias australensis
• Rhabdias bakeri
• Rhabdias bdellophis
• Rhabdias bermani
• Rhabdias bicornis
• Rhabdias blommersiae
• Rhabdias brachylaimus
• Rhabdias breviensis
• Rhabdias bufonis
• Rhabdias bulbicauda
• Rhabdias collaris
• Rhabdias dehradunensis
• Rhabdias delangei
• Rhabdias dossei
• Rhabdias elaphe
• Rhabdias elegans
• Rhabdias engelbrechti
• Rhabdias escheri
• Rhabdias esculentarum
• Rhabdias filicaudalis
• Rhabdias fuelleborni
• Rhabdias fuscovenosa
• Rhabdias galactonoti
• Rhabdias garhwalensis
• Rhabdias glaurungi
• Rhabdias globocephala
• Rhabdias hermafrodita
• Rhabdias hermaphrodita
• Rhabdias himalayanus
• Rhabdias hylae
• Rhabdias incerta
• Rhabdias japalurae
• Rhabdias joaquinensis
• Rhabdias kafunata
• Rhabdias kiri
• Rhabdias kongmongthaensis
• Rhabdias kuzmini
• Rhabdias lamothei
• Rhabdias macrocephalum ^[2]
• Rhabdias madagascariensis
• Rhabdias manantlanensis
• Rhabdias mariauxi
• Rhabdias montana
• Rhabdias mucronata
• Rhabdias multiproles
• Rhabdias nigrovenosum
• Rhabdias nipponica
• Rhabdias odilebaini
• Rhabdias ohlerae
• Rhabdias okuensis
• Rhabdias paraensis
• Rhabdias peninsularis
• Rhabdias picardiae
• Rhabdias pocoto
• Rhabdias polypedates
• Rhabdias pseudospherocephala
• Rhabdias rane
• Rhabdias rhacophori
• Rhabdias rhampholeonis
• Rhabdias rotundata
• Rhabdias rubrovenosa
• Rhabdias savagei
• Rhabdias shortii
• Rhabdias sphaerocephala
• Rhabdias stenocephala
• Rhabdias stomatica
• Rhabdias sylvestris
• Rhabdias tanyai
• Rhabdias tarichae
• Rhabdias thapari
• Rhabdias tobagoensis
• Rhabdias tokyoensis
• Rhabdias truncata
• Rhabdias vencesi
• Rhabdias waiapi

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rhabdias Stiles & Hassall, 1905 . 1 March 2021 . www.gbif.org . en.
2. Zeng . Jia-Lu . Chen . Hui-Xia . Xu . Hong-Ru . Li . Liang . Morphology, complete mitochondrial genome, and molecular phylogeny of Rhabdias macrocephalum n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabdiasidae) from Diploderma splendidum (Reptilia: Agamidae) . Parasite . 31 . 2024 . 1776-1042 . 39140873 . 11323812 . 10.1051/parasite/2024046 . 48.