Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Dorylaimia > Order Dioctophymatida > Suborder Dioctophymatina > Superfamily Dioctophymoidea > Family Dioctophymidae > Subfamily Eustrongylinae > Genus Eustrongylides

Eustrongylides mergorum (Rudolphi, 1809)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Eustrongylides*	Jägerskiöld, 1909	accepted genus name
*Hystrichis*	auct.	misapplied name

Species group names

*Strongylus mergorum*	Rudolphi, 1809	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers). (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/scientific-resources/taxonomy-systematics/host-parasites/.
additional source	Schwantes, U. (2023). Impact of anthropogenous environmental factors on the marine ecosystem of trophically transmitted helminths and hosting seabirds: Focus on North Atlantic, North Sea, Baltic and the Arctic seas. Helminthologia. 60(4): 300-326.
redescription	Moravec, F. (2013). Parasitic nematodes of freshwater fishes of Europe. Academia, Prague. 601 pp.
status source	Measures, L. N. (1988). Revision of the genus Eustrongylides Jägerskiöld, 1909 (Nematoda: Dioctophymatoidea) of piscivorous birds. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 66(4): 885-895.

Genbank

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Eustrongylides mergorum (Rudolphi, 1809). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1000256

Dr. David Gibson. Eustrongylides mergorum (Rudolphi, 1809). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/0ff0f00c-ee9b-455e-9711-71466d60bf28