MSBIAS taxon details
Nematomorpha
- Class Gordioida
- Class Gordiacés accepted as Gordioida (vernacular name)
- 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] 
MSBIAS (2024). Nematomorpha. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=162564 on 2025-03-31
The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Nematomorpha. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=162564 on 2025-03-31
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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]
additional source van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [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]
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
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | horsehair wormshair wormsGordian worms | [details] |
