Nemys - Contracaecum ovale (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920

Nemys taxon details

Contracaecum ovale (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920

AphiaID

829094 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:829094)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912

Original name

Ascaris ovalis Linstow, 1907

Synonymised names

Ascaris ovalis Linstow, 1907 · unaccepted

Contracaecum nehli Karokhin, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)

Contracaecum podicipitis Johnston & Mawson, 1949 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)

Contracaecum ruficolle Vuylsteke, 1953 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)

Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Synonym)

Environment

marine, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Contracaecum ovale (Linstow, 1907) Baylis, 1920. Accessed at: https://www.nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=829094 on 2026-06-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-01-11 00:08:14Z

created

Shamsi, Shokoofeh

2022-02-09 14:01:51Z

changed

Gibson, David

2025-03-17 15:07:48Z

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Gibson, David

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original description (of Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950) Mozgovoi AA. (1950). New anisakids of birds. Trudi Gelmintologicheskoi Laboratorii Akademiya Nauk SSSR. 3:90-101. [details]

taxonomy source Hartwich, G. (1964). Revision der vogelparasitischen Nematoden Mitteleuropas. II. Die Gattung Contracaecum Railliet & Henry, 1912 (Ascaridoidea). Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 40: 15–53., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/mmnz.4830400104 [details]

basis of record Cram, E. B. (1927). Bird parasites of the nematode suborders Strongylata, Ascaridata, and Spirurata. Bulletin of the United States National Museum. (140): 1-465., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.03629236.140.1 [details]

additional source Moravec, F. (2013). Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. Academia, Prague. 601 pp.
note: Larvaa [details]

additional source Garbin, L. E.; Diaz, J. I.; Servián, A.; Fusaro, B.; Navone, G. T. (2023). The genus Contracaecum Raillet & Henry (Nematoda: Anisakidae): host and geographical distribution on Neotropical and Antarctic species. Zootaxa. 5256(1): 43-62., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5256.1.3 [details]

redescription Presswell, B.; Bennett, J. (2022). Gastrointestinal helminth parasites of the threatened Australasian crested grebe (Podiceps cristatus australis, Gould 1844) in New Zealand, with descriptions of Baruscapillaria kamanae n. sp. (Nematoda: Trichuridae) and Cryptocotyle micromorpha n. sp. (Trematoda: Opisthorchiidae). Systematic Parasitology. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11230-022-10022-y [details]

Definitions

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Contracaecum ovale)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Contracaecum podicipitis Johnston & Mawson, 1949)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Contracaecum spasskii Mozgovoi, 1950)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (1 record)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Nematoda Collection (2 records) (from synonym Contracaecum nehli Karokhin, 1949)