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Gordioida 
AphiaID: 162563

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cephalorhyncha (Phylum) > Nematomorpha (Class)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Subclass
Parent Nematomorpha
Synonymised
taxa
  Gordiaces
Sources  basis of record: Parker, S.P. (Ed.) (1982). Synopsis and classification of living organisms. McGraw Hill Book Company: New York, NY (USA). ISBN 0-07-079031-0. 1166, 1232 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English Gordian worms  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Order Nectonematida
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Classification: Parker lists Gordioida as classis of phylum Nematomorpha. In order to accommodate the new phylum Cephalorhyncha, with Nematomorpha a class within it, we've changed the rank of the Gordioida to subclass [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:162563
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-07-01 13:10:14Z  created  Appeltans, Ward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Gordioida. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=162563 on 2013-05-25
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