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Nematomorpha

162564  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:162564)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nematomorpha (Phylum)
Vejdovský, 1886
accepted
Phylum

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  1. Class Gordioida
  2. Class Gordiacés accepted as Gordioida (vernacular name)
  3. Class Gordioidea accepted as Gordioida
  4. Class Nectonematoida accepted as Nectonematida
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Vejdovský, F. (1886). Zur morphologie der Gordiiden. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 43(3): 369-433, pls. 15, 16. [details] OpenAccess publication
Taxonomy Originally as an order.  
Taxonomy Originally as an order. [details]
WoRMS (2025). Nematomorpha. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=162564 on 2025-04-03
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2005-07-01 13:10:14Z
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Appeltans, Ward
2016-04-13 18:11:20Z
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Vanhoorne, Bart
2024-04-26 11:31:53Z
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Boyko, Christopher B.
2024-04-28 14:51:44Z
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Boyko, Christopher B.
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Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Vejdovský, F. (1886). Zur morphologie der Gordiiden. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 43(3): 369-433, pls. 15, 16. [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Other

additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details] 

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
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Taxonomy Originally as an order. [details]

Unreviewed
Biology The Nematomorpha is a small phylum of aquatic worms with about 200 species worldwide. Their free-living adults are long and slender worms ranging from a few centimetres to about a metre in length. They occur mostly in fresh-water habitats (Order Gordioidea) with only a few species described from marine waters (order Nectonematoidea). The larval and juvenile stages are endoparasitic in aquatic or waterside arthropods, or in marine decapod crustaceans. [details]
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LanguageName 
English threadwormsnematomorphsnematomorphanshorsehair wormshairwormshair wormsGordian worms  [details]
German Saitenwürmer  [details]
Japanese 類線形動物門  [details]
Swedish tagelmaskar  [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Nematomorpha) 
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