Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa

Nematomorpha

Rank: Phylum
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gordioida Rauther, 1930

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Gordian worms; hair worms; hair worms; horsehair worms sources: Charles Hussey;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: tagelmaskar

Literature

original description	Vejdovský, F. (1886). Zur morphologie der Gordiiden. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie. 43(3): 369-433, pls. 15, 16.
basis of record	Margulis, L.; Schwartz, K.V. (1982). Five Kingdoms : an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth. Second edition. Freeman.
basis of record	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 159-160
additional source	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).