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| Gordius sp. emerging from a Jerusalem cricket | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Nematomorpha |
| Class: | Gordioida |
| Order: | Gordioidea |
| Family: | Gordiidae |
| Genus: | Gordius Linnaeus, 1758 |
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Gordius is a genus of worms in the phylum Nematomorpha, the horsehair worms. It was formerly treated as the only genus in the family Gordiidae, but the genus Acutogordius is now considered as distinct.[1] The genus is distributed worldwide except for Antarctica, where no Nematomorpha have been recorded.[2]
- ^ Bleidorn, C., et al. (2002). Systematic relationships of Nematomorpha based on molecular and morphological data. Archived 2017-08-09 at the Wayback Machine Invertebrate Biology 121(4), 357-64.
- ^ Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (2002). Are the genera of Nematomorpha monophyletic taxa? Archived 2013-09-18 at the Wayback Machine Zoologica Scripta 31(2), 185-200.