''Guerrerostrongylus '' is a
genus
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of
nematode
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worms. Species of ''Guerrerostrongylus'' infect mostly the digestive tract of
sigmodontine
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and
caviomorph
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rodents
Rodents (from Latin , 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia (), which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws. About 40% of all mammal species are rodents. They are nat ...
from
South America
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. The genus is part of the subfamily Nippostrongylinae.
[ ]
Species include:
*''Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis''
Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991 (type-species)
*''Guerrerostrongylus zetta''
(Travassos, 1937)
*''Guerrerostrongylus gomesae''
Simões, dos Santos and Maldonado, 2012
*''Guerrerostrongylus ulysi''
Digiani, Notarnicola, and Navone, 2012
* ''Guerrerostrongylus marginalis''
Weirich, Catzeflis, and Jiménez, 2016 [ ]
References
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Heligmonellidae
Rhabditida genera
Parasitic nematodes of mammals
Parasites of rodents