{{Short description|Family of roundworms}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Physaloptera ngoci parasite120003-fig2.tif | image_caption = ''Physaloptera ngoci'', scanning electron microscopy | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Physalopteridae | authority = Railliet, 1893 | subdivision_ranks = Genera | subdivision = See text }}
'''Physalopteridae''' is a family of spirurian nematodes,<ref name="Railliet">Railliet, A. (1893). Traité de Zoologie Médicale et Agricole. Deuxième Édition. Asselin et Houzeau, Paris</ref> which belongs to the superfamily Physalopteroidea. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory system.
The Physalopteridae include species which are parasitic in various vertebrates.
==Systematics== The family includes: <ref name="WorMs">Bezerra, T.N.; Decraemer, W.; Eisendle-Flöckner, U.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Miljutin, D.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Mokievsky, V.; Venekey, V.; Vanreusel, A. (2018). NeMys: World Database of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. Physalopteridae Railliet, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22839 on 2018-08-06 </ref><ref name="MoravecJustine2018">{{cite journal|last1=Moravec|first1=František|last2=Justine|first2=Jean-Lou|title= ''Rasheedia'' n. nom. (Nematoda, Physalopteridae) for ''Bulbocephalus'' Rasheed, 1966 (a homonym of ''Bulbocephalus'' Watson, 1916), with description of ''Rasheedia heptacanthi'' n. sp. and ''R. novaecaledoniensis'' n. sp. from perciform fishes off New Caledonia|journal=Parasite|volume=25|year=2018|pages=39|issn=1776-1042|doi=10.1051/parasite/2018033|url= |pmid= 30052500|pmc=6063723}} {{open access}}</ref> * '''Subfamily Physalopterinae''' <small>Railliet, 1893</small> ** Genus ''Physaloptera'' <small>Rudolphi, 1819</small> ** Genus ''Abbreviata'' <small>Travassos, 1920</small> * '''Subfamily Proleptinae''' <small>Schulz, 1927</small> ** Genus ''Rasheedia'' <small>Moravec & Justine, 2018</small> ** Genus ''Heliconema'' <small>Travassos, 1919</small> ** Genus ''Paraleptus'' <small>Wu, 1927</small> ** Genus ''Proleptus'' <small>Dujardin, 1845</small>
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Category:Spirurida Category:Nematode families
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