WoRMS taxon details
Nematomorpha
- Class Gordioida
- Class Gordiacés accepted as Gordioida (vernacular name)
- Class Gordioidea accepted as Gordioida
- Class Nectonematoida accepted as Nectonematida
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Vejdovský, F. (1886). Zur morphologie der Gordiiden. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 43(3): 369-433, pls. 15, 16. [details] 
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 2025-04-18
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Vejdovský, F. (1886). Zur morphologie der Gordiiden. <em>Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie.</em> 43(3): 369-433, pls. 15, 16. [details]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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]
basis of record Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 159-160 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
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]
