Diphtherophorina is a suborder of terrestrial nematodes, being one of three that constitute suborder Triplonchida.Phylum Nematoda: Triplochida Nematode Classification. Department of Nematology. University of California, Riverside.Order Triplochida Nemaplex: Nematode-Plant Expert Information System. University of California, Davis. Version October 9, 2012.
Taxonomy There is a single superfamily, the Diphtherophoroidea (formerly Trichodoiroidea (Thorne, 1935)THORNE G, . (1935). Notes on free-living and plant parasitic nematodes, II. Proc. helminth. Soc. Wash.,2 : 96-98 Siddiqi, 1961), consisting of two families; Diphtherophoridae Trichodoridae
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