| Diplotriaenidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematoda |
| Class: | Chromadorea |
| Order: | Rhabditida |
| Suborder: | Spirurina |
| Infraorder: | Spiruromorpha |
| Superfamily: | Diplotriaenoidea Anderson, 1958 |
| Family: | Diplotriaenidae Anderson, 1958 |
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Diplotriaenidae is a family of nematodes. Like all their relatives, they have neither a circulatory a or respiratory system. They are the only family in superfamily Diplotriaenoidea, if the Oswaldofilariidae are correctly placed with the Filarioidea and not here.
Systematics
Subfamilies and genera of Diplotriaenidae are:
Subfamily Diplotriaeninae
- Chabaudiella
- Diplotriaena - includes Diplotriaenoides
- Quadriplotriaena
Subfamily Dicheilonematinae
- Dicheilonema - includes Contortospiculum
- Hamatospiculum - includes Parhamatospiculum, Tytofilaria, Oceanifilaria
- Hastospiculum - includes Setarospiculum
- Heterospiculum - includes Heterospiculoides
- Monopetalonema - includes Politospiculum and Ornithosetaria
- Petrovifilaria
- Serratospiculoides
- Serratospiculum