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  Superfamily Aphelenchoidea

Family Aphelenchidae

    Genus Aphelenchus -- North America.

Taxon Information

The Family Aphelenchidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Aphelenchidae, "Terrestrial, fungivorous. Sometimes associated with plant damage" (Hodda, 2011).
• Aphelenchidae, (De Ley et al., 2006).
• Aphelenchidae, (Smith, 2001).

Bibliography

• Hodda, M. 2011. Phylum Nematoda Cobb 1932. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 63-95. [Available online]
• De Ley, P., W. Decraemer & Eualem-Abebe. 2006. Introduction: Summary of present knowledge and research addressing the ecology and taxonomy of freshwater nematodes. [in] Eualem-Abebe et al. (eds.). Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy: 3-30.
• Smith, D.G. 2001. Nematoda (Roundworms). Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, 4th edition: 191-215.

Web Pages

• Animal Diversity Web
• Fauna Europaea
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Synopsis of the Described Nematoda of the World
• WikiSpecies