CLASS: ADENOPHOREA
SUBCLASS: ENOPLIA
ORDER: DORYLAIMIDA
SUBORDER: DORYLAIMINA
SUPERFAMILY: DORYLAIMOIDEA
FAMILY: LONGIDORIDAE
Plant Parasite
Scientific name - Xiphinema index
Common name - Dagger nematode
Disease - transmits grapevine fanleaf virus
ORDER: STICHOSOMIDA
SUPERFAMILY: TRICHOCEPHALOIDEA
FAMILY: TRICHURIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name -Trichuris trichiura
SUPERFAMILY: TRICHOCEPHALOIDEA
FAMILY: TRICHINELLIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name -Trichinella spiralis
Disease - trichinosis
SUPERFAMILY: MERMITHOIDEA
FAMILY: MERMITHIDAE
Invertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Romanomermis culicivorax
CLASS: SECERNENTEA
SUBCLASS: RHABDITIA
ORDER: RHABDITIDA
SUBORDER: RHABDITINA
SUPERFAMILY: RHABDITOIDEA
FAMILY: RHABDITIDAE
Free-Living
Scientific name - Caenorhabditis elegans
Common name -"C. elegans", the worm
Invertebrate Parasites
Scientific name -Steinernema
Scientific name - Heterorhabditis (See Steinernema)
FAMILY: STRONGYLOIDIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Strongyloides stercoralis
Common name - threadworm
SUPERFAMILY: OXYUROIDEA
FAMILY: OXYURIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Enterobius vermicularis
Common name - pinworm
SUPERFAMILY: HETERAKOIDEA
FAMILY: HETERAKIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name -Heterakis gallinarum
Disease - histomoniasis
ORDER: STRONGYLIDA
SUPERFAMILY: ANCYLOSTOMATOIDEA
FAMILY: ANCYLOSTOMATIDAE
Vertebrate Parasites
Scientific name - Ancylostoma duodenale
Common name - Old World hookworm of humans
Scientific name - Ancylostoma caninum (see A. duodenale)
Common name - dog and cat hookworm
Scientific name - Ancylostoma braziliense (see A. duodenale)
Common name - dog and cat hookworm
FAMILY: UNCINARIIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Necator americanus (see A. duodenale)
Common name - New World hookworm of humans, the American killer
SUPERFAMILY: TRICHOSTRONGYLOIDEA
FAMILY: TRICHOSTRONGYLIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Haemonchus contortus
Common name - barber pole worm
SUBCLASS: SPIRURIA
ORDER: ASCARIDIDA
SUPERFAMILY: ASCARIDOIDEA
FAMILY: ASCARIDIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name -Ascaris lumbricoides
Common name - human intestinal roundworm
FAMILY: TOXOCARIDAE
Vertebrate Parasites
Scientific name - Toxocara canis (dogs and cats) (see A. lumbricoides)
Scientific name - Toxascaris leonina (dogs and cats) (see A. lumbricoides)
Scientific name - Toxocara cati (cats) (see A. lumbricoides)
ORDER: SPIRURIDA
SUPERFAMILY: DRACUNCULOIDEA
FAMILY: DRACUNCULIDAE
Vertebrate Parasite
Scientific name -Dracunculus medinensis
Common name - Guinea worm, medina worm, serpent worm
SUPERFAMILY: FILARIOIDEA
FAMILY: FILARIIDAE
Vertebrate Parasites
Scientific name - Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi
Disease - filariasis, elephantiasis
FAMILY: ONCHOCERCIDAE
Vertebrate Parasites
Scientific name - Onchocerca volvulus
Disease - onchocerciasis, river blindness
Scientific name - Loa loa
Common name - eye worm
Disease - loaisis, loiasis, loaiasis
Scientific name - Dirofilaria immtis
Common name - dog heartworm
SUBCLASS: DIPLOGASTERIA
ORDER: TYLENCHIDA
SUBORDER: TYLENCHINA
SUPERFAMILY: TYLENCHOIDEA
FAMILY: HETERODERIDAE
Plant Parasites
SUBFAMILY: HETERODERINAE
Scientific name - Heterodera schachtii
Common name - sugar beet cyst nematode
SUBFAMILY: MELOIDOGYNINAE
Scientific name - Meloidogyne incognita
Common name - cotton root-knot nematode
SUBORDER: APHELENCHINA
SUBFAMILY: RHADINAPHELENCHINAE
Plant Parasite and Insect Associate
Scientific name - Rhadinaphelenchus cocophilus
Common name - red ring nematode
Disease - red ring disease
SUBORDER: SPHAERULARIINA
Invertebrate Parasite
Scientific name - Sphaerularia bombi