{{Short description|Family of nematodes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Raphidascarididae | authority = Hartwich, 1954 | subdivision_ranks = Subfamilies, tribes, and genera | subdivision_ref = <ref>Bezerra, T.N.; Eisendle, U.; Hodda, M.; Holovachov, O.; Leduc, D.; Mokievsky, V.; Peña Santiago, R.; Sharma, J.; Smol, N.; Tchesunov, A.; Venekey, V.; Zhao, Z.; Vanreusel, A. (2021). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Raphidascarididae Hartwich, 1954. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=731849 on 2021-08-13 </ref> | subdivision = *Subfamily Goeziinae <small>Travassos, 1919</small> **Genus ''Goezia'' <small>Zeder, 1800</small> *Subfamily Raphidascaridinae <small>Hartwich, 1954</small> **Tribe Lappetascaridinea <small>Rasheed, 1965</small> ***Genus ''Lappetascaris'' <small>Rasheed, 1965</small> ***Genus ''Mehdiascaris'' <small>Kalyankar, 1969</small> (taxon inquirendum) **Tribe Paranisakinea <small>Andersen, Chabaud & Willmott, 1974</small> ***Genus ''Ortoanisakis'' <small>Mosgovoi, 1951</small> ***Genus ''Paranisakiopsis'' <small>Yamaguti, 1941</small> ***Genus ''Paranisakis'' <small>Baylis, 1923</small> **Tribe Raphidascaridinea <small>Hartwich, 1954</small> ***Genus ''Aliascaris'' <small>Kalyankar, 1971</small> ***Genus ''Alibagascaris'' <small>Kalyankar, 1970</small> ***Genus ''Heterotyphlum'' <small>Spaul, 1920</small> ***Genus ''Hysterothylacium'' <small>Ward & Magath, 1917</small> ***Genus ''Iheringascaris'' <small>Pereira, 1935</small> ***Genus ''Paraheterotyphlum'' <small>Johnston & Mawson, 1948</small> ***Genus ''Raphidascaris'' <small>Railliet & Henry, 1915</small> ***Genus ''Raphidascaroides'' <small>Yamaguti, 1941</small> }} '''Raphidascarididae''' is a family of roundworms (also known as nematodes) in the order Ascaridida.<ref name="Zhang">{{cite book |last1=Zhang |first1=Zhi-Qiang |title=Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness |date=2011 |publisher=Magnolia Press |isbn=978-1-86977-849-1 |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r3_DVd5DtGEC&pg=PA80}}</ref> It encompasses nine genera<ref name="Zhang" /> (including ''Hysterothylacium'', which parasitize marine fish,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shamsi |first1=Shokoofeh |last2=Gasser |first2=Robin |last3=Beveridge |first3=Ian |date=June 2013 |title=Description and genetic characterisation of Hysterothylacium (Nematoda: Raphidascarididae) larvae parasitic in Australian marine fishes |journal=Parasitology International |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=320–328 |doi=10.1016/j.parint.2012.10.001 |pmid=23085044}}</ref> and ''Raphidascaris''<ref>{{cite web |title=Raphidascaris Railliet & Henry, 1915 |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22932 |access-date=1 June 2021 |website=World Register of Marine Species}}</ref>) and over 190 species.<ref name="Zhang" />

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