Gordioidea
Sign in to saveGordioidea is an order (sometimes placed at superfamily level) of parasitic horsehair worms. Its taxonomy remains uncertain, but appears to be contained in the monotypic class Gordioida and contains about 320 known species.
Species
ORDER
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumNematomorpha
- ClassGordioida
- OrderGordioidea
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Collections
- AM, MNA, UF
- Recorded in
- South Africa, United States
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- Nematomorpha
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- Paragordius tricuspidatus.jpeg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Biology
- Families and genera
- [[Chordodidae]]
- [[Gordiidae]]
- References
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Gordioidea is an order (sometimes placed at superfamily level) of parasitic horsehair worms. Its taxonomy remains uncertain, but appears to be contained in the monotypic class Gordioida and contains about 320 known species.
==Biology== Gordioidean adults are free-living in freshwater or semi-terrestrial habitats and larvae parasitise insects, primarily Orthopterans. Unlike Nectonematoideans, which are marine, gordioideans lack lateral rows of setae and have a single, ventral epidermal cord and their blastocoel is filled with mesenchyme in young worms but become open when older.
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