Overview
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A Family in the Kingdom Animalia.
Taxonomy
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The Family Sphaeronematidae is a member of the Superfamily Tylenchuloidea. Here is the complete "parentage" of Sphaeronematidae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Aschelminthes
- Phylum: Nematoda
(Rudolphi, 1808) Lankester, 1877 - Round Worms
- Class: Secernentea
Von Linstow, 1905
- Subclass: Tylenchia
(Thorne, 1949) Inglis, 1983
- Order: Tylenchida
G. Thorne, 1949
- Suborder: Criconematina
Siddiqi, 1980
- Superfamily: Tylenchuloidea
(Skarbilovich, 1947) Raski & Siddiqi, 1975
- Family: Sphaeronematidae (Raski & Sher, 1952) Geraert, 1966
- Superfamily: Tylenchuloidea
(Skarbilovich, 1947) Raski & Siddiqi, 1975
- Suborder: Criconematina
Siddiqi, 1980
- Order: Tylenchida
G. Thorne, 1949
- Subclass: Tylenchia
(Thorne, 1949) Inglis, 1983
- Class: Secernentea
Von Linstow, 1905
- Phylum: Nematoda
(Rudolphi, 1808) Lankester, 1877 - Round Worms
- Superphylum: Aschelminthes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Family Sphaeronematidae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Subfamily (2): Meloidoderitinae · Sphaeronematinae
- Genus (2): Meloidoderita · Sphaeronema
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 11 species and subspecies in the Family Sphaeronematidae.
Genera
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Meloidoderita
Sphaeronema
At least 9 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Sphaeronema.
More info about the Genus Sphaeronema may be found here.
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