Belongs within: Nematoda.
Contains: Diphtherophorina, Tobrilina, Ironina.
The Enoplia are a clade of nematodes united by molecular analysis, many of which possess filamentous stretch receptor organs known as metanemes.
<==Enoplia [Tripyloidina]
| i. s.: Palaeonema Poinar, Kerp & Hass 2008 [Palaeonematidae]PKH08
| `--*P. phyticum Poinar, Kerp & Hass 2008PKH08
|--Trefusiida [Trefusioidea]LB02
| |--SimpliconematidaeLB02
| |--TrefusiaA66 [TrefusiidaeLB02]
| | `--T. longicaudaA66
| |--LaurathonematidaeLB02
| `--XenellidaeLB02
|--TriplonchidaLB02
| |--DiphtherophorinaLB02
| |--TobrilinaLB02
| `--Tripylina [Tripyloidea]LB02
| |--TripylaMM02 [TripylidaeLB02]
| `--Onchulus Cobb 1920E86 [OnchulidaeLB02]
| |--O. filicaudatus Altherr 1972E86
| |--O. fuscilabiatus Altherr 1965E86
| `--O. nolli Goffart 1950E86
`--EnoplidaLB02
| i. s.: AndrassyidaeLB02
| Mesacanthion hirsutumJu02
| Pontonema vulgareH02
| Tripyloididae [Tripyloidoidea]LB02
| |--Ingenia Gerlach 1957L86
| `--Bathylaimus Cobb 1894B02
| Alaimidae [Alaiminae, Alaimoidea]LB02
| |--Alaimus thompsoniMM02
| `--Paramphidelus Andrassy 1977E86
| `--P. propinquus (Andrassy 1962)E86
|--Oncholaimina [Oncholaimacea, Oncholaimoidea]LB02
| |--Ditlevsenella Filipjev 1927B02 [EnchelidiidaeLB02]
| `--OncholaimidaeLB02
| |--Metoncholaimus denticaudatusJu02
| |--AdoncholaimusJu02
| | |--A. fuscusJu02
| | `--A. thalassophygasL02b
| `--OncholaimusL02b
| |--O. echiniBK77
| |--O. oxyurisL02b
| `--O. vesicariusJo02
`--EnoplaceaL86
|--IroninaLB02
`--Enoplina [Enoploidea]LB02
|--Chaetonema Filipjev 1927L86 [AnoplostomatidaeLB02]
|--PhanodermatidaeLB02
|--Anticoma [Anticomidae]LB02
| `--A. possjeticaTPG10
|--ThoracostomopsidaeLB02
| |--Enoplolaimus de Man 1893L86
| | `--E. psammae Gerlach 1952L86
| |--Enoploides Ssaweljev 1912B02
| | `--E. delamareiJu02
| `--Metenoploides Wieser 1953B02
`--Enoplus [Enoplidae]LB02
|--E. anisospiculusJu02
|--E. brevisH02
|--E. communisL02a
`--E. demaniJu02
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
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[MM02] Munn, E. A., & P. D. Munn. 2002. Feeding and digestion. In: Lee, D. L. (ed.) The Biology of Nematodes pp. 211–232. Taylor & Francis: Florence (Kentucky).
[PKH08] Poinar, G., Jr, H. Kerp & H. Hass. 2008. Palaeonema phyticum gen. n., sp. n. (Nematoda: Palaeonematidae fam. n.), a Devonian nematode associated with early land plants. Nematology 10 (1): 9–14.
[TPG10] Trebukhova, Y. A., O. N. Pavlyuk & V. V. Galtsova. 2010. Community of free-living marine nematodes on macrophytes (Starka Strait, Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan). In: China-Russia Bilateral Symposium: Proceedings of the China-Russia Bilateral Symposium of “Comparison on Marine Biodiversity in the Northwest Pacific Ocean”, 10–11 October 2010, Qingdao (China) pp. 149–153. Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.