NEMATOMORPHA
(Gordian or horsehair worms)

NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Class 1 subtaxa 3 references
Order 1 subtaxa 3 references
Family 1 subtaxa 3 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
ClassNEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
PhylumCEPHALORHYNCHA (priapulids, mud dragons and horsehair worms)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J. 1961 Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects 156pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Goodey, T. 1963 Soil and Freshwater Nematodes 2nd edition, 389pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Ritchie, J. 1921 Scottish hairworms (Nematomorpha, Gordiidae), their occurrence, habits, and characteristics; with a key for the discrimination of the species recorded from Britain The Scottish Naturalist No. 109-120: 111-115, 136-142, 255-262.
  • Freshwater

  • Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. European Limnofauna wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php

    NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

    General Literature

    Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms):

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