Dracunculoidea

Dracunculus medinensis, larvae

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Superphylum: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Cycloneuralia
Cladus: Nematoida
Phylum: Nematoda
Classis: Chromadorea
Ordo: Rhabditida
Subordo: Spirurina
Infraordo: Dracunculoidea
Familiae: Anguillicolidae – Daniconematidae – Dracunculidae – Guyanemidae – Lucionematidae – Micropleuridae – Philometridae – Philonematidae – Skrjabillanidae – Tetanonematidae

Name

Dracunuculoidea Stiles, 1907

• Type genus: Dracunculus Reichard, 1759

References

Primary references

• Stiles, C.W. 1907. The zoological characters of the roundworm genus Filaria Mueller, 1787, with a list of the thread worms reported for man. US Public Health and Marine Hospital Service Hygienic Laboratory, Bulletin 34: 31–51. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Sokolov, S.G., Kalmykov, A.P. & Malysheva, S.V. 2020. Phylogeny of dracunculoid nematodes (Chromadorea: Rhabditida: Spirurina: Dracunculoidea) from some Eurasian freshwater fishes. Zootaxa 4858(4): 521–541. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.4.3 Reference page. 

Links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20081201091157/http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/metazoa/nematoda/dracunculoidea.htm