Global InformationNectonema information
| Nectonema | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
| Clade: | Nematoida |
| Phylum: | Nematomorpha |
| Class: | Nectonematoida |
| Order: | Nectonematoidea Rauther, 1930 |
| Family: | Nectonematidae Ward, 1892 |
| Genus: | Nectonema Verrill, 1879 |
| Species | |
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N. agile | |
Nectonema is a genus of marine horsehair worms first described by Addison E. Verrill in 1879.[1] It is the only genus in the family Nectonematidae described by Henry B. Ward in 1892, in the order Nectonematoidea, and in the class Nectonematoida. The genus contains five species; all species have a parasitic larval stage inhabiting crustacean hosts and a free-living adult stage that swims in open water.[2][3]
- ^ Stiles, Charles W. (December 1892). "On Nectonema agile Verrill". The American Naturalist. 26 (312): 1037–1038.
- ^ Pechenik, Jan A. (2010). "Four Phyla of Likely Nematode Relatives". Biology of the Invertebrates (6th International ed.). Singapore: Mc-Graw Hill Education (Asia). pp. 452–457. ISBN 978-0-07-127041-0.
- ^ Nielsen, Claus (2011). "Phylum Nematomorpha". Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla. Oxford Scholarship Online. pp. 286–289. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606023.003.0050. ISBN 9780199606023.