spirurid
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
spirurid (plural spirurids)
- (zoology) Any nematode in the family Spiruridae.
- 1975, George O. Poinar, Entomogenous Nematodes: A Manual and Host List of Insect-nematode Associations:
- Representatives of the Mermithidae are the most common nematode parasites of tettigoniids, however spirurids and more rarely, subulurids and thelastomatids, also occur in some members of this family.