World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species
Citation
Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (2024). World checklist of freshwater Nematomorpha species (version Dec 2010). In O. Bánki, Y. Roskov, M. Döring, G. Ower, D. R. Hernández Robles, C. A. Plata Corredor, T. Stjernegaard Jeppesen, A. Örn, T. Pape, D. Hobern, S. Garnett, H. Little, R. E. DeWalt, K. Ma, J. Miller, T. Orrell, R. Aalbu, J. Abbott, C. Aedo, et al., Catalogue of Life (Version 2024-11-18). Catalogue of Life, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dfrdl-3cmDescription
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
Freshwater hairworms
Geographic Coverages
Global
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University Hamburg
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A Schmidt-Rhaesa
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