page_title: Gordius (genus)
section_title: Diversity
hierarchical_section_title: Gordius (genus) / Diversity
caption_attribution_description: English: Gordius fulgur Baird, 1861; Gordiidae; escaping from a mantid
context_page_description: 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 usually included there. The genus is distributed worldwide except for Antarctica, where no Nematomorpha have been recorded.
context_section_description: As of 2010 there are 79 species in the genus.
  Species include:
  Gordius aeneus
  Gordius alascensis
  Gordius albopunctatus
  Gordius alpinus
  Gordius angulatus
  Gordius aquaticus
  Gordius attoni
  Gordius balcanicus
  Gordius bivittatus
  Gordius borisphaenicus
  Gordius cavernarum
  Gordius chilensis
  Gordius dectici
  Gordius difficilis
  Gordius digitatus
  Gordius fulgur
  Gordius germanicus
  Gordius gesneri
  Gordius guatemalensis
  Gordius helveticus
  Gordius interjectus
  Gordius japonicus
  Gordius karwendeli
  Gordius kimmeriensis
  Gordius longissimus
  Gordius lumpei
  Gordius luteopunctatus
  Gordius mongolicus
  Gordius mulleri
  Gordius nonmaculatus
  Gordius ogatai
  Gordius omensis
  Gordius paranensis
  Gordius perronciti
  Gordius pesici
  Gordius pioltii
  Gordius platyurus
  Gordius plicatulus
  Gordius preslii
  Gordius robustus
  Gordius serratus
  Gordius setiger
  Gordius sinareolatus
  Gordius solaris
  Gordius sphaerura
  Gordius stellatus
  Gordius tatrensis
  Gordius tenuis
  Gordius testaceus
  Gordius tirolensis
  Gordius turcomanicus
  Gordius undulatus
  Gordius verrucosus
  Gordius zwicki
caption: Gordius fulgur emerging from a mantid
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