Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Monhysterina > Superfamily Sphaerolaimoidea > Family Xyalidae

Daptonema Cobb, 1920

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cylindrotheristus*	Wieser, 1956	synonym
*Cylindrotheristus*	De Coninck, 1965	synonym
*Mesotheristus*	Wieser, 1956	synonym
*Mesotheristus*	Chitwood & Murphy, 1964	synonym
*Pseudotheristus*	Wieser, 1956	synonym
*Theristus (Cylindrotheristus)*	Wieser, 1956	synonym
*Theristus (Daptonema)*		synonym
*Trichotheristus*	Wieser, 1956	synonym
*Tubolaimus*	Allgén, 1929	synonym

Children

Daptonema acrilabiatum (De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema adiecta (Schulz, 1932) Wieser, 1956
Daptonema aquadulcis (Gagarin, 1987)
Daptonema biggi (Gerlach, 1965) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema calceolatum (De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema circulum (Vitiello, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema conicum (Filipjev, 1922) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema curvatum (Gerlach, 1956) Wieser, 1959
Daptonema curvispiculum (Gerlach, 1953) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema deconincki Sharma, 1985
Daptonema divertens (Boucher & Helléouet, 1977) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema donsi (Allgén, 1948) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema dubium (Bütschli, 1873) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema elegans (Kreis, 1929) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema fallax (Lorenzen, 1972) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema fistulatum (Wieser & Hopper, 1967) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema flagellicauda (Lorenzen, 1973) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema furcatum (Juario, 1974) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema groenlandicum (Ditlevsen, 1928) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema hirsutum (Vitiello, 1967) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema invagiferoum (Platt, 1973) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema kornoeense (Allgén, 1929) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema levis Rieger & Ott, 1971
Daptonema longicaudatum (Filipjev, 1922) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema longissimecaudatum (Kreis, 1935) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema microspiculum (Gerlach, 1953) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema mirabilis (Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933) Tchesunov, 1990
Daptonema nanum (Lorenzen, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema normandicum (de Man, 1890) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema osadchikhae (Tchesunov, 1980)
Daptonema oxycerca (de Man, 1888) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema paradonsi (Gerlach & Riemann, 1973) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema paratortum (Vitiello, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema planiere (Vitiello, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema procerum (Gerlach, 1951) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema prominens (Vitiello, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema proprium (Lorenzen, 1972) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema psammoides (Warwick, 1970) Tchesunov, 1990
Daptonema pseudotortum (Vitiello, 1971) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema rusticum (Kreis, 1929) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema setifer (Gerlach, 1952) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema setosum (Bütschli, 1874) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema spirum (Gerlach, 1959) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema stylosum (Lorenzen, 1973) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema subsetosa (W. Schneider, 1943)
Daptonema svalbardense (Gerlach, 1965) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema tenuispiculum (Ditlevsen, 1918) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema trabeculosum (Schneider, 1906) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema trichinus (Gerlach, 1956)
Daptonema trichospiculum (Allgén, 1933) Wieser, 1956
Daptonema vicinum (Riemann, 1966) Lorenzen, 1977
Daptonema vietnamensis Venekey, Gheller, Maria, Brustolin, Kandratavicius, Vieira, Brito, Souza & Fonseca, 2014
Daptonema xyaliforme (Wieser & Hopper, 1967) Lorenzen, 1977

Literature

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basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785.
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additional source	Zekely, J.; Gollner, S.; Van Dover, C. L.; Govenar, B.; Le Bris, N.; Nemeschkal, H. L.; Bright, M. (2006). Nematode communities associated with tubeworm and mussel aggregations on the East Pacific Rise. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 477-482.
additional source	Li, J.; Vincx, M. (1993). The temporal variation of intertidal nematodes in the Westerschelde. I. The importance of an estuarine gradient. Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Ecology. 27 (2-4): 319-326.
additional source	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Franco, M.; Steyaert, M.; Cabral, H.; Tenreiro, R.; Chambel, L.; Vincx, M.; Costa, M.; Vanaverbeke, J. (2008). Impact of discards of beam trawl fishing on the nematode community from the Tagus estuary (Portugal). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 56(10): 1728-1736.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(3): 547-556.
additional source	De Oliveira Pinto, T.K.,Netto, S.A., Esteves, A.M., De Castro, F.J.V., Neres, P.F. and Da Silva, M.C. (2021). Free-living freshwater nematodes from Brazil: checklist of genera and regional patterns of diversity. Nematology. 0 (2021) 1-14.
additional source	Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. Hydrobiologia. 553:219-230.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Moodley, L.; De Beer, D.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Meiobenthos at the Arctic Håkon Mosby Mud Volcano, with a parental-caring nematode thriving in sulphide-rich sediments. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 321: 143-155.
additional source	Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84.
additional source	Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Lindegarth, M. (2010). Variation in nematode assemblages over multiple spatial scales and environmental conditions in Arctic deep seas. Progress in Oceanography. 84 (3-4): 174-184.
additional source	Various Authors (2000). Nematode filing cabinet of the Marine Biology Section Ugent - in combination with the NemasLan Ms-Access database (published on CD-Rom, 2000)
additional source	Aryuthaka, C.; Kito, K. (2018). Two new species of the genus Daptonema Cobb, 1920 (Nematoda: Xyalidae) found in an intertidal seagrass bed on the coast of the Andaman Sea, Thailand, with reference to the taxonomic status of the genus Trichotheristus Wieser, 1956. Zootaxa. 4394(1): 77.
additional source	Jensen, P.; Aagaard, I.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Dando, P. R.; Jorgensen, N. O.; Kuijpers, A.; Laier, T.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R. (1992). 'Bubbling reefs' in the Kattegat: submarine landscapes of carbonatecemented rocks support a diverse ecosystem at methane seeps. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 83: 103-112.
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additional source	Shirayama, Y.; Ohta, S. (1990). Meiofauna in a cold-seep community off Hatsushima, central Japan. Journal of the Oceanographical Society of Japan. 46(3): 118-124.
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additional source	Gollner, S.; Zekely, J.; Govenar, B.; Le Bris, N.; Nemeschkal, H. L.; Fischer, C. R.; Bright, M. (2007). Tubeworm-assocated permanent meiobenthic communities from two chemically different hydrothermal vent sites on the East Pacific Rise. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 337: 39-49.
redescription	Nicholas, W.; Trueman, J. (2002). The taxonomy of the family Xyalidae Chitwood, 1951 (Monhysterida: Nematoda): a cladistic analysis. Nematology. 4(4): 453-470.
status source	Venekey, V.; Gheller, P. F.; Maria, T. F.; Brustolin, M. C.; Kandratavicius, N.; Vieira, D. C.; Brito, S.; Souza, G. S.; Fonseca, G. (2014). The state of the art of Xyalidae (Nematoda, Monhysterida) with reference to the Brazilian records. Marine Biodiversity. 44(3): 367-390.
taxonomy source	Nguyen Dinh Tu; Nguyen Vu Thanh. (2019). Distribution of and the taxonomic keys to the species in the genus Daptonema Cobb, 1920 in Vietnam. TAP CHI SINH HOC. 41(1).
taxonomy source	Tchesunov, A. V.; Miljutin, D. M. (2006). Three new free-living nematode species (Monhysterida) from the Arctic abyss, with revision of the genus Eleutherolaimus Filipjev, 1922 (Linhomoeidae). Russian Journal of Nematology. 14(1): 57-75.
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ecology source	Maria, T. F.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Esteves, A. M.; De Troch, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2012). The importance of biological interactions for the vertical distribution of nematodes in a temperate ultra-dissipative sandy beach. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science. 97: 114-126.
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ecology source	Braeckman, U.; Provoost, P.; Moens, T.; Soetaert, K.; Middelburg, J. J.; Vincx, M.; Vanaverbeke, J. (2011). Biological vs. Physical Mixing Effects on Benthic Food Web Dynamics. PLoS ONE. 6(3): e18078.
ecology source	Fonsêca-Genevois, V.da., P.J. Somerfield, M.H. Baeta-Neves, R. Coutinho & T. Moens. (2006). Colonization and early succession on artificial hard substrata by meiofauna. Marine Biology 148(5):1039-1050.
ecology source	Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(9): 1521-1539.
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identification resource	Timchenko, A. I.; Portnova, D. A. (2024). A new sympagic nematode species Daptonema gelida sp. n. (Monhysterida, Xyalidae) from the White Sea landfast ice. Zootaxa. 5433(2): 183-206.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Daptonema Cobb, 1920. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2455

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Daptonema Cobb, 1920. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/522a99bb-26f3-4747-95bf-a8500afffe47