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Agfa (nematode)

Agfa is the only genus in the parasitic nematode family Agfidae. There are only three known species: Agfa flexilis, A. morandi and A. tauricus. They are all obligate parasites in terrestrial gastropods.

Agfa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Agfidae
Genus:	Agfa Chitwood, 1935^[1]
Synonyms
Leptodera Dujardin, 1844 Leptoderes Dujardin, 1844

Agfa

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Agfa
Chitwood, 1935^[1]

Synonyms

Leptodera Dujardin, 1844
Leptoderes Dujardin, 1844

Species

Agfa flexilis (Dujardin, 1845)^[2]
Agfa morandi Ribas & Casanova, 2002^[3]
Agfa tauricus Korol & Spiridonov, 1991^[4]

References

^ Chitwood (1935). Proc. Helminth. Soc. Washington 2: 53.

^ Dujardin F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. xvi, 654+15 pp. Page 109. + Plates: plate 4, figure A. (not plate 6)

^ Ribas A. & Casanova J. (2002). "Agfa morandi sp. n. (Rhabditida, Agfidae) a parasite of Limax sp. (Gastropoda, Limacidae)". Parasitology Research 88(8): 745-747. doi:10.1007/s00436-002-0660-1.

^ Korol E. N. & Spiridonov S. E. (1991). "Angiostoma kimmeriensis sp. n. and Agfa tauricus sp. n.—parasitic Rhabditida (Nematoda) from Crimean terrestrial mollusks". Helminthologica 28: 179–182.

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