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        <title xml:lang="eng">Checklist of Canadian Nematodes</title>
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            <organizationName>Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada</organizationName>
            <positionName>Biological Collections Division</positionName>
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                <administrativeArea>Ontario</administrativeArea>
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There are nearly 30,000 slides and 5000 vials of over 88,000 roundworm specimens in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC).
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This checklist is based on a subset of CNC’s nematode (roundworm) accessions from Canada’s provinces and territories. This checklist is not exhaustive; nematodes regulated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency are purposefully removed from this compilation. Scientific names were cross-referenced against valid and accepted names indicated in Nemys, the World Database of Nematodes.
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        <acknowledgements>Data provided by the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC), ©His Majesty the King in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.</acknowledgements>
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            <organizationName>Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada</organizationName>
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                <administrativeArea>Ontario</administrativeArea>
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                <citation identifier="https://doi.org/10.5886/gbcnv7">Biological Collections Division (2026). Checklist of Canadian Nematodes. Version 1.0. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Checklist dataset. https://doi.org/10.5886/gbcnv7</citation>
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