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

Ichthyascaris Wu, 1949

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Raphidascaris (Ichthyascaris)*	Wu, 1949	synonym

Children

Ichthyascaris mediterranea (Lébre & Petter, 1983) Bruce, 1990

Literature

redescription	Malta, L.; Paiva, F.; Elisei, C.; Tavares, L.; Pereira, F. (2018). A new species of Raphidascaris (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) infecting the fish Gymnogeophagus balzanii (Cichlidae) from the Pantanal wetlands, Brazil and a taxonomic update of the subgenera of Raphidascaris based on molecular phylogeny and morphology. Journal of Helminthology. 1-10.
taxonomy source	Sheenko, P.S. (1992). To the revision of the genera Raphidascaris, Raphidascaroides, Ichthyascaris, Alibagascaris (Nematoda: Anisakidae). Biologicheskie Nauki, (= Nauchnye Doklady Vysshei Shkoly. Biologicheskie Nauki. Moskva). 1992(10): 44-55 (In Russian).
taxonomy source	Moravec, F.; Walter, T.; Yuniar, A. T. (2022). Description of Ichthyascaris grandis sp. n., redescription of Raphidascaroides halieutaeae Yin, 1983 and new records of some other raphidascaridid and philometrid nematodes from marine fishes off Java, Indonesia. Folia Parasitologica. 69.

Genbank

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Ichthyascaris Wu, 1949. 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:994503