NEMATOMORPHA
(Gordian or horsehair worms)

Subtaxon Example images Rank Featured
subtaxa		 No of
images		 No of
ID refs
GORDIOIDA
a class of hairworms
Subclass 3 subtaxa 33 images 5 ident. refs
GORDIOIDEA
Gordian or horsehair worms
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 		Order 3 subtaxa 33 images 5 ident. refs
Taxonomic hierarchy:
PhylumNEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
SuperphylumECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
CladeBilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
SubkingdomEUMETAZOA (metazoans)
KingdomANIMALIA (animals)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
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:

NBNNBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for NEMATOMORPHA (Gordian or horsehair worms)
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