Filaria

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title: "Filaria" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["rhabditida", "rhabditida-genera"] description: "Genus of roundworms" topic_path: "general/rhabditida" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filaria" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of roundworms ::

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Filaria is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Filariidae.

The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.

Species:

• Filaria acutiuscula Molin, 1858
• Filaria bufonis Molin, 1858
• Filaria loliginis Delle Chiaje, 1829
• Filaria martis Gmelin, 1791
• Filaria piscium Rudolphi, 1809
• Filaria smithi Sambon, 1907
• Filaria terebra Diesing, 1851
• Filaria tuberculata von Linstow, 1877
• Filaria volvulans Railliet, 1893
• Filaria volvulas Leuckart, 1892
• Filaria volvulus Leuckart, 1892
• Filaria volvulxus Manson, 1893

References

References

1. "Filaria Mueller, 1787".

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