Rhabditida

Rhabditida Chitwood, 1933
Adult and two young of Caenorhabditis elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Rhabditida
Superfamilies
Bunonematoidea Cephaloboidea Drilonematoidea Myolaimoidea Panagrolaimoidea Rhabditidae Strongylida Teratocephaloidea

Rhabditida is an order of free-living, zooparasitic and phytoparasitic microbivorous nematodes (roundworms).

Rhabditida is an order of usually free-living microbivorous nematodes (roundworms) living in soil.

The Oxyuridae used to be included here, but they rather seem to belong in the Spiruria. Cephalobidae, Panagrolaimidae, Steinernematidae and Strongyloididae seem to be closer to the Tylenchia, regardless of whether these are merged with the Rhabditia or not.^[1]

Genera include:^{[verification needed]}

• Bursilla (including Mesorhabditis)
• Caenorhabditis - containing several species with sequenced genomes (most notably C. elegans and C. briggsae)
• Cruznema
• Heterorhabditis
• Panagrellus which includes the microworm
• Pelodera
• Rhabditis
• Steinernema
• Strongyloides

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Rhabditida

• Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2002b): Nematoda. Version of 2002-JAN-01. Retrieved 2008-NOV-02.

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