WoRMS taxon details
Nematomorpha
AphiaID: 101062
AphiaID: 101062
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cephalorhyncha (Phylum) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Class | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cephalorhyncha | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nematomorpha (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa | Subclass Gordioida | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
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] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:101062 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Neuhaus, B. (2013). Nematomorpha. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=101062 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||
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