Enoplia

Enoplia
	A mermithid
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Enoplea
Subclass:	Enoplia; Pearse, 1942
Orders
	Enoplida; ; Triplonchida;

The Enoplia are a subclass of nematodes in the class Enoplea.

Description[]

Enoplians are characterized by amphids shaped like ovals, stirrups, or pouches. Their bodies are smooth, without rings or lines. The esophagus is cylindrical and glandular.^[1]

Taxonomy[]

Lorenzen described two orders, Enoplida and Trefusiida, in the 1980s based on morphology. With the advent of phylogenetic analysis, a reorganisation has been necessary, moving the Triplonchida here to create three orders and expanding it.^[1]^[2] ^[3]

The orders are distinguished mainly by habitat type.^[4]^[3]

Enoplida Filipjev, 1929 – nematodes of marine and brackish water habitat, carnivorous or feed on diatoms and other algaes
Triplonchida Cobb, 1920 – terrestrial nematodes, including some plant parasites
Lorenzen, 1981

References[]

^ ^a ^b Subclass Enoplia. Archived 2013-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Nemaplex: Nematode-Plant Expert Information System. University of California, Davis. Version July 26, 2012.
^ Phylum Nematoda. Nematode Classification. Department of Nematology. University of California, Riverside.
^ ^a ^b Lee 2010.
^ Bik, H. M.; et al. (2010). "Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades". BMC Evol. Biol. 10: 353. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-353. PMC 2995457. PMID 21073704.

Bibliography[]

Blaxter, Mark L.; De Ley, Paul; Garey, James R.; Liu, Leo X.; Scheldeman, Patsy; Vierstraete, Andy; Vanfleteren, Jacques R.; Mackey, Laura Y.; Dorris, Mark; Frisse, Linda M.; Vida, J. T.; Thomas, W. Kelley (5 March 1998). "A molecular evolutionary framework for the phylum Nematoda". Nature. 392 (6671): 71–75. doi:10.1038/32160. PMID 9510248. S2CID 4301939.
Lee, Donald L, ed. (2010). The biology of nematodes. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0415272117. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
De Ley, P & Blaxter, M 2004, 'A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa'. in R Cook & DJ Hunt (eds), Nematology Monographs and Perspectives. vol. 2, E.J. Brill, Leiden, pp. 633–653.

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[ucd-1] Subclass Enoplia. Archived 2013-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Nemaplex: Nematode-Plant Expert Information System. University of California, Davis. Version July 26, 2012.

[ucr-2] Phylum Nematoda. Nematode Classification. Department of Nematology. University of California, Riverside.

[FOOTNOTELee2010-3] Lee 2010.

[4] Bik, H. M.; et al. (2010). "Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades". BMC Evol. Biol. 10: 353. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-353. PMC 2995457. PMID 21073704.

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