FAMILY                      Dracunculidae Stiles, 1907b [Leiper 1912]
GENUS                              Avioserpens Wehr & Chitwood, 1934
                                   [=Oshimaia Sugimoto, 1934]
                                   [=Petroviprocta Schachtachtinskaja, 1951]
SPECIES                                 Avioserpens denticulophasma Chitwood, 1934 [Description male; Devamma 1980 p.23]
                                        [=Avioserpens nana Mawson, 1957]
SPECIES                                 Avioserpens galliardi Chabaud & Campana, 1949
                                        [=Petroviprocta vigissi Schachtachtinskaja, 1951]
SPECIES                                 Avioserpens mosgovoyi Supryaga, 1965
TYPE SPECIES                            Avioserpens taiwana Sugimoto, 1919 [ Chitwood 1935]
                                        [=Avioserpens sichuanensis Li, 1964] [et al.; also 1989 ref. by Li, Li & Cheng; also 1984]
GENUS                              Dracunculus Reichard, 1759
                                   [=Chelonidracunculus Yamaguti, 1961]
                                   [=Draconculus Penel, 1905] [misspelling]
                                   [=Dracunculus Bartholinus, 1669] [pre-Linnaean]
                                   [=Dracuncuus Moniez, 1896] [misspelling]
                                   [=Drakunculus Schneidemuehl, 1898:306] [misspelling]
                                   [=Drakunkulus Schneidemuehl, 1896] [nomen nova?]
                                   [=Fuellebornius Leiper, 1926:491]
                                   [=Ophiodracunculus Yamaguti, 1961]
                                   [=Pesteria Tadros, 1966] [syn. Chabaud 1975 p.9]
                                   [=Vena Gallandat, 1773]
                                   [=Vermiculus Dunglison, 1895:1150] [praeocc. Meuschen 1787; type is capillaris Dunglison]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus coluberensis Deshmukh, 1969 [species inquirenda; probably a filarial nematode]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus dahomensis (Neumann, 1895) [Moorthy 1937; host Python natalensis]
                                        [=Ophiodracunculus dahomensis Neumann, 1895]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus doi Chabaud, 1960
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus fuelleborni Travassos, 1934
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus globocephalus Mackin, 1927 [Redescription; Moravec & Little 2004 p.340; Redescription; Gatschet & Schmidt 1977 p.835]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus houdemeri Hsü, 1933
                                        [=Dracunculus alii Deshmukh, 1969]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus insignis Leidy, 1858 [Chandler 1942]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus lutrae Crichton & Beverley-Burton, 1973
TYPE SPECIES                            Dracunculus medinensis Linnaeus, 1758 [ Gallandat 1777]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus oesophageus Polonio, 1859 [Desportes 1938]
                                        [=Dracunculus riccii Deshmukh, 1970]
SPECIES                                 Dracunculus ophidensis Brackett, 1938 [Thamnophis melanogaster in Reptilia]
GENUS                              Lockenloia Adamson & Caira, 1991:663 [Type is L. sanguinis; placement?]
SPECIES                                 Lockenloia sanguinis Adamson & Caira, 1991:664 [host Ginglymostoma cirratum in Pisces]