Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Rhabditida > Suborder Spirurina > Infraorder Ascaridomorpha > Superfamily Ascaridoidea > Family Raphidascarididae > Subfamily Raphidascaridinae > Tribe Raphidascaridinea > Genus Hysterothylacium

Hysterothylacium aduncum (Rudolphi, 1802) Deardorff & Overstreet, 1981

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hysterothylacium*	Ward & Magath, 1917	accepted genus name
*Thynnascaris*	Dollfus, 1933	synonym

Species group names

*Ascaris aduncum*	Rudolphi, 1802	objective synonym
*Ascaris clavatum*	Rudolphi, 1809	subjective synonym
*Ascaris adunca*	Rudolphi, 1802	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Gibson, D. I. (2001). Nematoda - parasitic. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels. 50: pp. 174-176.
additional source	Yeates, G. W. (2010). Phylum Nematoda: roundworms, eelworms. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 480-493.
additional source	Hamerlynck, O.; Geets, A.; Van Damme, P. (1989). The parasites of two sympatric gobies Pomatoschistus minutus and P. lozanoi in the Belgian coastal waters. In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium. 27-30.
additional source	Pereira, F. B.; González-Solís, D. (2022). Review of the parasitic nematodes of marine fishes from off the American continent. Parasitology. 1-14.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Stoyanov, B.; Mutafchiev, Y.; Georgiev, B. B. (2023). Helminth Parasites of the Three-spined Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus L., 1758 (Actinopterygii: Gasterosteidae) from a Black Sea Coastal Wetland, Bulgaria. Acta Zool. Bulg. 75 (2), 285-300.
additional source	Kornyychuk, Y.; Polyakova, T.; Pronkina, N. (2022). New data on pipefishes' and seahorse's endohelminths off Crimean coasts of the Black Sea. Helminthologia. 59(1): 74-82.
additional source	Ramdani, S.; Trilles, J.-P.; Ramdane, Z. (2021). METAZOAN PARASITES INFECTING XIPHIAS GLADIUS FROM THE EASTERN COAST OF ALGERIA (SW MEDITERRANEAN SEA). Zoodiversity. 55(6): 505–518.
redescription	Arai, H. P.; Smith, J. W. (2016). Guide to the Parasites of Fishes of Canada Part V: Nematoda. Zootaxa. 4185(1): 1.
redescription	Li, L.; Zhang, L.-P.; Liu, Y.-Y. (2012). Hysterothylacium simile n. sp. and H. aduncum (Rudolphi, 1802) (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) from marine fishes in the Bohai and Yellow Sea, China, with comments on the record of H. paralichthydis (Yamaguti, 1941) from Chinese waters. Systematic Parasitology. 84(1): 57-69.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Hysterothylacium aduncum (Rudolphi, 1802) Deardorff & Overstreet, 1981. 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:122868

Dr. David Gibson. Hysterothylacium aduncum (Rudolphi, 1802) Deardorff & Overstreet, 1981. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/485ba088-f7ee-49f6-8bc4-54c8705c2617