World Database of Nematodes

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Nematoda (6 710)
Class Adenophorea
Class Chromadorea (4 899)
Subclass Chromadoria (4 899)
Order Aphelenchida accepted as Aphelenchoidea Fuchs, 1937
Order Araeolaimida (522)
Order Ascaridida accepted as Ascaridomorpha
Order Benthimermithida accepted as Plectida
Order Chromadorida (805)
Order Desmodorida (823)
Order Desmoscolecida (311)
Suborder Desmoscolecina (311)
Superfamily Desmoscolecoidea Shipley, 1896 (311)
Family Cyartonematidae Tchesunov, 1989 (13)
Family Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896 (287)
Family Eophasmidae Poinar, 2011 †
Family Meyliidae De Coninck, 1965 (11)
Subfamily Meyliinae (11)
Genus Boucherius Decraemer & Jensen, 1981 (2)
Genus Erebus Bussau, 1993 accepted as Erebussau (Bussau, 1993) Bezerra, Pape, Hauquier & Vanreusel, 2021
Genus Erebussau (Bussau, 1993) Bezerra, Pape, Hauquier & Vanreusel, 2021 (2)
Genus Gerlachius Andrássy, 1976 (2)
Species Gerlachius lissus (Gerlach, 1956)
Species Gerlachius novusetosus Platt & Zhang, 1982
Genus Meylia Gerlach, 1956 (3)
Genus Noffsingeria Decraemer & Jensen, 1981 (2)
Order Diplogasterida accepted as Diplogasteromorpha
Order Monhysterida (922)
Order Plectida (417)
Order Rhabditida (1 099)
Order Spirurida accepted as Rhabditida
Order Strongylida accepted as Rhabditida
Order Tylenchida accepted as Tylenchomorpha
Class Enoplea (1 801)
Class Nematoda incertae sedis (10)
Class Secernentea

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