World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species in the Catalogue of Life
Citation
Schmidt-Rhaesa A. (2019). FADA Nematomorpha: World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species (version Dec 2010). In: Roskov Y., Ower G., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., Nieukerken E. van, Zarucchi J., Penev L., eds. (2019). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 25th March 2019. Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.Description
The checklist includes a list of all currently known and accepted species of freshwater hairworms (Nematomorpha), assembled in the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) project. Nematomorpha are parasites of terrestrial (in few cases aquatic) insects. For sexual reproduction, they leave their host by driving it into water and emerging there. Five species are marine, 356 species live in freshwater. Horsehair worms are found in many different aquatic habitats throughout the world.Taxonomic Coverages
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Schmidt-Rhaesa A.originator
Zoological Museum, University Hamburg, Germany
homepage: https://web.archive.org/web/20180320182846/http://fada.biodiversity.be/group/show/7
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Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life
Leiden
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homepage: http://www.catalogueoflife.org
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Species 2000 Secretariat
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Schmidt-Rhaesa A.
editor
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Species 2000 Secretariat c/o Naturalis
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