Trichuris
Classification: Taxonomic ranks under review (cf. Encyclopedic Reference of Parasitology, 2001, Springer-Verlag)
Metazoa (Animalia) (multicellular 
          eukaryotes, animals)
          Nemathelminthes (nematodes)
          Adenophorea (Aphasmidea) (without chemoreceptors known as phasmids)
          Trichocephalida (Enoplida) (thread-head)
          Trichuroidea (whipworms, anterior end long and narrow, stichosome pharynx)


