Family Nordiidae
Revised 08/03/20
Nordiidae Jairajpuri & Siddiqi, 1964
Ref. Andrássy, 2009, Vinciguerra, 2006.
Mainly terrestrial habitats, sometimes moss; several species reported from freshwater habitats.
Classified as omnivorous and/or plant-feeding by Yeates et al., 1993.
Molecular analyses have demonstrated that the evolutionary relationships between the genera of Nordiidae are not as close as expected and that the the family is an artificial grouping (Holterman et al., 2008; Pedram et al., 2011; Pena-Santiago et al., 2015).
References
Andrássy, I. 2009. Free-living Nematodes of Hungary III. Hungarian
Natural History Museum, Budapest. 608p.
Peña-Santiago, R. Guerrero, P., Liébana, G., del Carmen García, M., Palomeque, T., Lorite, P. 2015. Characterisation of an Iberian population of Rhyssocolpus iuventutis Andrássy, 1971 (Dorylaimida: Nordiidae), with a revised taxonomy of the genus. Nematology 17:139-153. |
Vinciguerra, M.T. 2006. Dorylaimida Part II: Superfamily Dorylaimoidea. Pp 392-467 in Eyualem-Abebe, W. Traunspurger and I Andrássy (eds) Freshwater Nematodes: Ecology and Taxonomy. CABI, Cambridge MA.
Yeates, G.W., T. Bongers, R. G. M. De Goede, D. W. Freckman, and S. S.
Georgieva. 1993. Feeding habits in soil nematode families and genera—An outline
for soil ecologists. Journal of Nematology 25:315-331.