Guerrerostrongylus

Guerrerostrongylus is a genus of nematode worms. Species of Guerrerostrongylus infect mostly the digestive tract of sigmodontine and caviomorph rodents from South America. The genus is part of the subfamily Nippostrongylinae.^[1][2]

Guerrerostrongylus
Guerrerostrongylus marginalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Family:	Heligmonellidae
Genus:	Guerrerostrongylus Sutton & Durette-Desset, 1991
Type species
Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991
Species
See text.

Synlophe of Guerrerostrongylus marginalis (transverse sections)

Species include:

• Guerrerostrongylus uruguayensis Sutton and Durette-Desset, 1991 (type-species)
• Guerrerostrongylus zetta (Travassos, 1937)
• Guerrerostrongylus gomesae Simões, dos Santos and Maldonado, 2012
• Guerrerostrongylus ulysi Digiani, Notarnicola, and Navone, 2012
• Guerrerostrongylus marginalis Weirich, Catzeflis, and Jiménez, 2016 ^[2]