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Acanthocheilonema Dracunculoides
''Acanthocheilonema'' is a genus within the family Onchocercidae which comprises mainly tropical parasitic worms. Cobbold created the genus ''Acanthocheilonema'' with only one species, ''Acanthocheilonema dracunculoides'', which was collected from aardwolf (''Proteles cristatus'': Hyaenidae) in the region of South Africa in the nineteenth century. These parasites have a wide range of mammalian species as hosts, including members of Carnivora, Macroscelidea, Rodentia, Pholidota, Edentata, and Marsupialia. Many species among several genera of filarioids exhibit a high degree of endemicity in studies done on mammalian species in Japan. However, no concrete evidence has confirmed any endemic species in the genus ''Acanthocheilonema''. There are about fifteen well characterized parasitic species found in genus ''Acanthocheilonema''. ''A. delicata'' n. sp. (2013), ''A. dracunculoides'' (Cobbold 1870), ''A. filaria'' (Kou, 1958), ''A. mansonbahri'' (Nelson, 1961), ''A. mephitis'' (Webs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
