Rasheedia is a genus of nematodes in the order Spirurida. The nematode genus Bulbocephalus <small>Rasheed, 1966</small> was found to be a homonym of Bulbocephalus <small>Watson, 1916</small> (Apicomplexa, Stylocephalidae) and, therefore, a new name, Rasheedia n. nom., was proposed in 2018 to substitute it.
The genus was named in honour of Suraiya Rasheed, "a well-known Pakistani fish parasitologist who was the first to describe these interesting nematodes".
Species of Rasheedia are parasite of fish and include:
- Rasheedia deblocki <small>(Le-Van-Hoa, Pham-Ngoc-Khue & Nguyen-Thi-Lien, 1972) Moravec & Justine, 2018</small>
- Rasheedia heptacanthi <small>Moravec & Justine, 2018</small>, a parasite of the Cinnabar goatfish Parupeneus heptacanthus (Mullidae) and Dentex fourmanoiri (Sparidae)
- Rasheedia inglisi <small>(Rasheed, 1966) Moravec & Justine, 2018</small>
- Rasheedia novaecaledoniensis <small>Moravec & Justine, 2018</small>, a parasite of the Indian goatfish Parupeneus indicus (Mullidae)
- Rasheedia pseudupenei <small>(Vassiliadès & Diaw, 1978) Moravec & Justine, 2018</small>
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