Trichinella

Taxobox
name = Whipworm
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Nematoda
classis = Adenophorea
ordo = Trichurida
familia = Trichinellidae
genus = "Trichinella"
genus_authority = Railliet, 1895
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Trichinella spiralis" "Trichinella pseudospiralis" "Trichinella britovi" "Trichinella nativa" "Trichinella nelsoni" "Trichinella papuae"

"Trichinella" is the genus of parasitic roundworms of the phylum Nematoda that cause trichinosis. Members of this genus are often called "trichinella" or trichina worms. A characteristic of nematoda are one-way digestive tract, and a pseudoceolom (body cavity made up of only an ectoderm and endoderm).

Varieties of "trichinella" include:

*"Trichinella spiralis" the "trichinella" worm
*"Trichinella pseudospiralis"
*"Trichinella britovi"
*"Trichinella nativa"
*"Trichinella nelsoni"
*"Trichinella papuae"