Rhabditida Rhabditida

Rhabditida - Definition

'Roundworm'
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Nematoda
Class:Secernentea
Order:Rhabditida
Families


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

Genera include:

  • Rhabditis
  • Caenorhabditis of which C. elegans is a nematode that has had its full genome deciphered
  • Cruznema
  • Pelodera
  • Bursilla (Mesorhabditis)
  • Steinernema
  • Heterorhabditis
  • Enterobius
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