Ingenia

This article is about the nematode worm. For the dinosaur formerly known as Ingenia yanshini, see Heyuannia.

Ingenia is a genus of marine nematode worms native to Brazil, with a single known species, I. mirabilis.^[1][2][3] It belongs to the Tripyloididae, which is a group that are mostly free-living^[4] and which feed on diatoms and other algaes.^[2]

Ingenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Nematoda
Class:	Chromadorea
Order:	Araeolaimida
Family:	Tripyloididae
Genus:	Ingenia Gerlach, 1957
Type species
Ingenia mirabilis Gerlach, 1957