🪱Caenorhabditis elegans
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek caeno- 'recent', rhabditis 'rod-like', and Latin elegans 'elegant'. In 1900, Maupas initially named it Rhabditis elegans. Osche placed it in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952, and in 1955, Dougherty raised Caenorhabditis to the status of genus.
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- Body mass
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- Shoulder height
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- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 0.16 years
Everything we know about the Caenorhabditis elegans
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Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumNematoda
- ›classChromadorea
- ›orderRhabditida
- ›familyRhabditidae
- ›genusCaenorhabditis
- ›speciesCaenorhabditis elegans
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumRoundworms · Nematoda
- classChromadorea
- genusCaenorhabditis
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