Rhabditida

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iRhabditida
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematoda Class: Secernentea Order: Rhabditida Chitwood, 1933
Families
Cephalobidae Myolaimidae Panagrolaimidae Rhabditidae Steinernematidae Teratocephalidae

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

Genera include:

• Bursilla (Mesorhabditis)
• Caenorhabditis of which C. elegans has had its full genome deciphered
• Cruznema
• Enterobius which includes the pinworms
• Heterorhabditis
• Panagrellus which includes the microworm
• Pelodera
• Rhabditis
• Steinernema