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Also known as the ''''lungworms'''', but beware! - not all worms in the lungs are metastrongyloids!

[[Image:Aeurostrongylus abstrusus.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Aeurostrongylus abstrusus'' - Courtesy of the Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine]]

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[[Image:Metastrongylus larva.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' larva from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Metastrongylus larva.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' larva from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Metastrongylus.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Metastrongylus.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Metastrongylus 2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

[[Image:Metastrongylus 2.jpg|thumb|right|150px|''Metastrongylus'' from pig faeces - Joaquim Castellà Veterinary Parasitology Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona]]

 

== General Appearance ==

== General Appearance ==

*Bursate

*Bursate

NOTE: the most pathogenic worms in the lungs of ruminants and equines belong to the genus ''Dictyocaulus''. These look like typical metastrongyloid lungworms, but molecular studies have confirmed that they are related to the Trichostrongyloidea (a case of convergent evolution). This explains why their life cycle is so different from the others.

NOTE: the most pathogenic worms in the lungs of ruminants and equines belong to the genus ''Dictyocaulus''. These look like typical metastrongyloid lungworms, but molecular studies have confirmed that they are related to the Trichostrongyloidea (a case of convergent evolution). This explains why their life cycle is so different from the others.

[[Angiostrongylidae]]

*''[[Metastrongylus]]'' spp. in [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Metastrongylus spp.|bronchi]] of pigs

 

[[Filaroides]]

 

 

*''Metastrongylus'' spp. in [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Metastrongylus spp.|bronchi]] of pigs

*''Crenosoma vulpis'' [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Crenosoma vulpis|lungworm]] of dogs and foxes

*''Crenosoma vulpis'' [[Respiratory Parasitic Infections - Pathology#Crenosoma vulpis|lungworm]] of dogs and foxes

[[Category:Bursate_Nematodes]]

[[Category:Bursate_Nematodes]]