Spirurida
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Spirurida falls under the phylum Nematoda class Chromadorea and order Rhabditida. They are characterized by their elongated, cylindrical bodies and unsegmented structure. Like all nematodes, they have neither a circulatory nor a respiratory system.
Some Spirurida, like the genus Gongylonema, can cause disease in humans. One such disease is a skin infection with Spirurida larvae, called "creeping disease". Some species are known as eyeworms and infect the orbital cavity of animal hosts.
Systematics
The Camallanida are sometimes included herein as a suborder, and the Drilonematida are sometimes placed here as a superfamily. There are doubts about the internal systematics of the Spirurida, and some groups placed herein might belong to other spirurian or even secernentean lineages.[1]
The following superfamilies are at least provisionally placed in the Spirurida:
- Acuarioidea
- Aproctoidea
- Diplotriaenoidea
- Filarioidea
- Gnathostomatoidea
- Habronematoidea
- Physalopteroidea
- Rictularioidea
- Spiruroidea
- Thelazioidea
References
Citations
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- ↑ ToL (2002)
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Sources
- <templatestyles src="smallcaps/styles.css"/>Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2002): Nematoda. Version of 2002-JAN-01. Retrieved 2008-NOV-02.
External links
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