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  Superfamily Tylenchoidea

Family Ecphyadophoridae

    Subfamily Ecphyadophorinae
    Subfamily Ecphyadophoroidinae

Taxon Information

The Family Ecphyadophoridae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

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

Literature Records

• Ecphyadophoridae, "Terrestrial or freshwater aquatic habitats, feed externally on plant roots. Not known to cause economic damage to plants" (Hodda, 2011).

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]

Web Pages

• Synopsis of the Described Nematoda of the World