Register of Antarctic Species (RAS) - Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896

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Deep-Sea taxon details

Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896

AphiaID

2173 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2173)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Desmoscolecoidea Shipley, 1896

Direct children (20)

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Subfamily Desmoscolecinae
1. Tribe Desmoscolecini Shipley, 1896
  1. Genus Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863
  2. Genus Prototricoma Timm, 1970
  3. Genus Spinodesmoscolex Decraemer, 1983
Tribe Greeffiellini Filipjev, 1929
1. Genus Calligyrus Lorenzen, 1969
2. Genus Greeffiella Cobb, 1922
3. Genus Greeffiellopsis Schrage & Gerlach, 1975
4. Genus Hapalomus Lorenzen, 1969
Subfamily Tricominae Lorenzen, 1969
1. Genus Antarcticonema Timm, 1978
2. Genus Desmotricoma Decraemer, 1984
3. Genus Odetenema Bezerra, Pape, Hauquier & Vanreusel, 2021
4. Genus Paratricoma Gerlach, 1956
5. Genus Protricoma Timm, 1970
6. Genus Quadricomoides Decraemer, 1976
7. Genus Tricoma Cobb, 1894
Genus Desmolorenzenia Freudenhammer, 1975 accepted as Desmoscolex (Desmolorenzenia) Freudenhammer, 1975
Genus Quadricoma Filipjev, 1922 accepted as Tricoma (Quadricoma) (Filipjev, 1922)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2173 on 2025-07-18

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2173 on 2025-07-18

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2010-02-16 14:13:17Z

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Kihara, Terue Cristina

2015-02-26 07:36:41Z

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Vanaverbeke, Jan

2017-08-28 10:10:18Z

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Eisendle, Ursula

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taxonomy source De Ley, P.; Blaxter, M. L. (2004). A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa. Nematology Monographs & Perspectives - Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Nematology 8 - 13 June 2002, Tenerife, Spain. 2: 633-653. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Lim, H. W.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Tricoma (Quadricoma) jindoensis, a New Species of Marine Interstitial Nematoda (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae) from Jindo Island, Korea. The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, special issue. 5:61-70. [details] Available for editors

taxonomy source Lim, H. W.; Lee, J. M.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Two new marine nematodes of subgenus Quadricoma (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae: Tricoma) from Korea. Integrative biosciences. 9, A632. [details]

taxonomy source Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.). (2014). Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera: 2. Nematoda. Handbook of Zoology (2010) Walter De Gruyter: Berlin. 759 pp., available online at http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/180464 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Dinet, A., F. Grassle & V. Tunnicliffe. (1988). Premières observations sur la méiofaune des sites hydrothermaux de la dorsale Est-Pacifique (Guaymas, 21°N) et de l'Explorer Ridge. [First observations on the meiofauna of the hydrothermal sites of the East-Pacific Ridge (Guaymas, 21°N) and the Explorer Ridge.]. Oceanologica Acta. 8: 7-14. [details] Available for editors

additional source Decraemer, W. (1979). Taxonomic problems within the Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bel. 108(1-2): 9-16. [details] Available for editors

additional source Timm, R. W. (1971). A Revision of the Nematode Order Desmoscolecida Filipjev, 1929. Nematologica. 17 : 494. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors