Coronostomatoidea

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Coronostomatoidea
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Nematoda
Class: Chromadorea
Order: Rhabditida
Infraorder: Oxyuridomorpha
Superfamily: Coronostomatoidea
Kloss, 1961

Coronostomatoidea is a superfamily of nematodes. Its type family is Coronostomatidae, which was circumscribed in 1961 by G. R. Kloss. The superfamily was initially circumscribed in 1977 by George Poinar Jr. and then re-established in 2016 by Gary Phillips and colleagues. This superfamily consists of the families Coronostomatidae and Traklosiidae.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Phillips, Gary; Bernard, Ernest C.; Pivar, Robert J.; Moulton, John K.; Shelley, Rowland M. (2016). "Coronostoma claireae n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditida: Oxyuridomorpha: Coronostomatidae) from the Indigenous Milliped Narceus gordanus (Chamberlain, 1943) (Diplopoda: Spirobolida) in Ocala National Forest, Florida". Journal of Nematology. 48 (3): 159–169. doi:10.21307/jofnem-2017-023. ISSN 0022-300X. PMC 5070928. PMID 27765989.