Lab Notes on the Web - Pseudocoelomate Phyla
Supplemental Internet Resources for Laboratory Studies

Bruce G. Stewart
Professor of Biology, Murray State College, Tishomingo, OK 74842

Some Supplemental Resources:

Pseudocoelomate Phyla in General

• University of Alberta Invertebrate Course with Cladistics Analysis of Pseudocoelomate Phyla

Links to Specific Pseudocoelomate Phyla

• Phylum Rotifera
• Introduction to the Rotifera at the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UMPC)
• The following link is to a nice photograph of a rotifer with several structures labeled: http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/picture/bdelloid.gif
• Here is a good general site on rotifers http://www.dmc.utep.edu/rotifer
• Get a perspective on the incredible diversity within this phylum by visiting their general site on rotifers at: http://www.nies.go.jp/chiiki1/protoz/identi-r.htm#Bdelloidea

• Phylum Acanthocephala

• Acanthocephala at the Tree of Life
• Phylum Acanthocephala at Online Zoologists

• Phylum Nematomorpha

• Horsehair worms in Ilinois - informative text with photograph
• Nematomorpha at the Tree of Life Project
• Image of and adult horsehair worm in pool of water after emerging from its insect host (from Animal Diversity Web of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

• Phylum Nematoda
• Introduction to the Nematoda at the UCMP
• Here is a page with useful general information and some fine photographs of both free living and parasitic forms:  http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/phylum_nematoda.htm