Enoplea

Enoplea are a class of the roundworms. Most are free-living, but the group includes (at least as delimited here) the order Trichurida, which includes whipworms and trichina worms.

The anterior sensory structures (amphids) are well developed, while the posterior ones (phasmids) are not.

Traditionally, the Enoplea were treated as a subclass Enoplia in the "Adenophorea" assemblage, alongside the Chromadorea. With the dismantling of this artificial group, the two subclasses were upranked to classes of their own. As it appears, the Enoplea contain two distinct lineages, as has long been suspected. These have been reinstated as subclasses Dorylaimia and Enoplia. But it may well be that they are just as distant from each other as from the Chromadorea, necessitating a further split of the group.

Orders

• Subclass Enoplia
  • Order Enoplida
  • Order Isolaimida
  • Order Oncholaimida
  • Order Stichosomida
  • Order Triplonchida
  • Order Tripylida
• Subclass Dorylaimia
  • Order Dioctophymida
  • Order Dorylaimida
  • Order Mermithida
  • Order Mononchida
  • Order Trichocephalida (formerly Trichurida or Trichinellida)

The order Marimermithida is of uncertain affiliations.

External links

Data related to Enoplea at Wikispecies

• NeMys Enoplia taxon page