Investigations carried out with different species of the genus Annona showed that aqueous extracts of Annona senegalensis (Alawa et al., 2003; Ndjonka et al., 2011) and methanol extracts and ethyl acetate extracts of A. squamosa (Souza et al.,
2008; Kamaraj and Abdul Rahuman, 2011) present in vitro anthelmintic activity against different nematodes, validating the pharmacological potential of genus.