Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Oncholaimina > Superfamily Oncholaimoidea > Family Oncholaimidae > Subfamily Oncholaiminae > Genus Metoncholaimus

Metoncholaimus pristiurus (Zur Strassen, 1894) Filipjev, 1918

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Metoncholaimus*	Filipjev, 1918	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Oncholaimus pristiurus*	Zur Strassen, 1894	synonym

Literature

basis of record	De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. 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. 161-174.
additional source	Coomans, A. V. (1989). Overzicht van de vrijlevende nematofauna van België (Nematoda). [The freeliving nematofauna of Belgium: a review.]. In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium. 43-56.
additional source	Timm, R. W. (1953). The Study of Free-living Nematodes. Turtox News. 31 (9).
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	Vanreusel, A. (1990). Ecology of the free-living marine nematodes from the Voordelta (Southern Bight of the North Sea). I. Species composition and structure of the nematode communities. Cah. Biol. mar. 31: 439-462.
additional source	Vitiello, P. (1985). Structure des peuplements de Nematodes en milieu lagunaire pollué. Actes du 110e congrès national des sociétes savantes fascicule II Extrait Paris cths 1985.
additional source	Coomans, A. V.; Verschuren, D.; Vanderhaeghen, R. (1988). The demanian system, traumatic insemination and reproductive strategy in Oncholaimus oxyuris Ditlevsen (Nematoda, Oncholaimina). Zoologica Scripta. 17 (1): 15-23.
additional source	Wieser, W. (1960). Benthic studies in Buzzards Bay II. The meiofauna. Limnology and Oceanography. 5 (2): 121-137.
additional source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
additional source	Mawson, P. M. (1953). Some Marine Freeliving Nematodes From the Australia Coast. The Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 76: 34-40.
new combination reference	Filipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian).
toxicology source	Vincx, M.; Heip, C.H.R. (1987). The use of meiobenthos in pollution monitoring studies: a review. CM Documents - ICES. (E33L:1166). ICES: [s.l.]. 18 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metoncholaimus pristiurus (Zur Strassen, 1894) Filipjev, 1918. 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:122161