NEMATOMORPHA
(Gordian or horsehair worms)

NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

Subtaxon Rank Featured
subtaxa
No of
interactions
No of
references
Subclass 2 subtaxa 5 references
Order 2 subtaxa 5 references
Taxonomic hierarchy:
PhylumNEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)

Identification Works

Handling & MagnificationAuthorYearTitleSource
Cloudsley-Thompson, J.L. & Sankey, J. 1961 Land Invertebrates, a guide to British worms, molluscs and arthropods, excluding insects 156pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Goodey, T. 1963 Soil and Freshwater Nematodes 2nd edition, 389pp, Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Ritchie, J. 1921 Scottish hairworms (Nematomorpha, Gordiidae), their occurrence, habits, and characteristics; with a key for the discrimination of the species recorded from Britain The Scottish Naturalist No. 109-120: 111-115, 136-142, 255-262.

Freshwater

Visser, H. & Veldhuijzen van Zanten, H.H. European Limnofauna wbd.etibioinformatics.nl/bis/limno.php

NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

General Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Bryant, M.S., Adlard, R.D. & Cannon, L.R.G. Gordian Worms www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Parasites/Animal+parasites/Gordian+worms
Hanelt, B., Bolek, M. & Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. Hairworm Biodiversity Survey www.nematomorpha.net/index.html

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms):

BioImagesBioImages (www.bioimages.org.uk) has 33 images of NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
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