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Enoplida

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Enoplida is an order of nematodes. It is one of two orders in Enoplia, which is one of two subclasses in Class Enoplea.^[1]^[2]

These nematodes are mostly free-living marine animals.^[3] Most feed on diatoms and other algaes.^[1]

Upon phylogenetic analysis in 2010, the order was divided into five clades. Clades and selected families include:^[3]

Clade I
- Family Rhabdolaimidae
Clade II
- Family Alaimidae
- Family Ironidae
Clade III
- Family Tripyloididae
- Family Trefusiidae
Clade IV
- Family Oxystominidae
- Family Oncholaimidae
- Family Enchelidiidae
Clade V
- Family Thoracostomopsidae
- Family Enoplidae
- Family Phanodermatidae
- Family Leptosomatidae

The World Register of Marine Species shows the following suborders within Enoplida:^[4]

^ ^a ^b Class Enoplea. Archived 2013-09-28 at the Wayback Machine Nemaplex: Nematode-Plant Expert Information System. University of California, Davis. Version October 9, 2012.
^ Phylum Nematoda. Nematode Classification. Department of Nematology. University of California, Riverside.
^ ^a ^b Bik, H. M.; et al. (2010). "Moving towards a complete molecular framework of the Nematoda: a focus on the Enoplida and early-branching clades". BMC Evol. Biol. 10: 353. doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-353. PMC 2995457. PMID 21073704.
^ "Enoplida". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 23 May 2020.

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Enoplida is an order of nematodes. It is one of two orders in Enoplia, which is one of two subclasses in Class Enoplea.

These nematodes are mostly free-living marine animals. Most feed on diatoms and other algaes.