Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Kinorhyncha > Class Cyclorhagida > Order Kentrorhagata

Semnoderidae Remane, 1929

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

*Antygomonidae*	Adrianov & Malakhov, 1994	synonym; comb. ined.

Children

Antygomonas Nebelsick, 1990
Semnoderes Zelinka, 1907
Sphenoderes Higgins, 1969

Literature

original description	Remane, A. (1929). Dritte Klasse des Cladus Nemathelminthes. Kinorhyncha = Echinodera. De Gruyter, Berlin, Handbuch der Zoologie. Band 2, Lieferung 6, 187-248.
basis of record	Neuhaus, B.; van der Land, J. (2001). Cephalorhyncha (=Loricifera, Priapulida, Kinorhyncha, Nematomorpha), in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 159-160
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.
taxonomy source	Sørensen, M. V.; Dal Zotto, M.; Rho, H. S.; Herranz, M.; Sánchez, N.; Pardos, F.; Yamasaki, H. (2015). Phylogeny of Kinorhyncha based on morphology and two molecular loci. PLOS ONE. 10(7): e0133440, 1-33.
identification resource	Adrianov, A. V.; Maiorova, A. S. (2018). Parasemnoderes intermedius gen. n., sp. n. — the first abyssal representative of the family Semnoderidae (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida). Russian Journal of Marine Biology. 44(5): 355-362.

Genbank

Citation

Neuhaus, B. (2025). World Kinorhyncha Database. Semnoderidae Remane, 1929. 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:101071