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  Superfamily Mermithoidea

Family Mermithidae

    Subfamily Amphidomermithinae
    Subfamily Amphimermithinae
    Subfamily Eumermithinae
    Subfamily Eurymermithinae
    Subfamily Hexamermithinae
    Subfamily Mermithinae
    Subfamily Mesomermithinae
    Subfamily Paramermithinae
    Subfamily Pseudomermithinae

Taxon Information

The Family Mermithidae 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

• Mermithidae, "Terrestrial, free-living but not feeding as adults and briefly as juveniles, internal parasites of arthropods for the rest of the life cycle. Uniformly fatal to the host" (Hodda, 2011).
• Mermithidae, (De Ley et al., 2006).
• Mermithidae, (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

• Synopsis of the Described Nematoda of the World
• Wikipedia