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

Pontonema vulgare (Bastian, 1865) Filipjev, 1916

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Oncholaimus Dujardin, 1845

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pontonema*	Leidy, 1855	accepted genus name
*Convexolaimus*	Kreis, 1928	synonym
*Paroncholaimus*	Filipjev, 1916	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	Allgén, C. A. (1946). Letzter Bericht über freilebende Nematoden aus dem Schalensand- und Kiesboden der Westküste Norwegens. Arkiv for Zoologi. 37 A (15): 1-26.
additional source	Costello, M.J., C. Emblow & R. White (EdS.). (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. 463 pp.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
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	Allgén, C. A. (1954). Freeliving marine Nematodes from East Greenland and Jan Mayen. The Swedish Greenland-Expedition 1899. Meddelelser om Gronland. 107 (6): 1-44.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1953). Revision der freilebenden marinen Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Staatlichen Zoologischen Station Kristineberg an der Westküste Schwedens. Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik). 81: 548-603.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1946). Westnorwegische marine Nematoden. Ark. Zool. 37 A (14): 1-32.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1957). On a small collection of freeliving marine nematodes from Greenland and some other arctic regions with reviews and analyses of the compositions of all hitherto known arctic nematode faunas. Meddr. Gronland. 159 (3): 1- 42.
additional source	Wieser, W.; Kanwisher, J. (1960). Growth and metabolism in a marine nematode, Enoplus communis Bastian. Z. vergl. Physiol. 43: 29-36.
additional source	Thiermann, F.; Windoffer, R.; Giere, O. (1994). Selected meiofauna around shallow water hydrothermal vents off Milos (Greece): ecological and ultrastructural aspects. Vie Milieu. 44(3/4): 215-226.
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	Mirto, S. (2003). Nematode community response to fish-farm impact in the Western Mediterranean. Environmental pollution. 116: 202-216.
additional source	Moens, T.; Luyten, C.; Middelburg, J.; Herman, P.; Vincx, M. (2002). Tracing organic matter sources of estuarine tidal flat nematodes with stable carbon isotopes. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 234: 127-137.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1947). West American Marine Nematodes (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LXXV). Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. Foren. 110: 65-219.
new combination reference	Filipjev, I. N. (1916). Free living nematodes in the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Petrograd. Ezheg. zool. Muz., Petrograd. 21: 59-116.
ecology source	Boufahja, F.; Ismaïly, S.; Beyrem, H. (2015). Experimental evidence of the effects of an antimitotic agent, Colchicine, on a nematode community through a microcosm approach. Cah. Biol. Mar. 39-48.
ecology source	Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume XXV. Part II:73-184.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Pontonema vulgare (Bastian, 1865) Filipjev, 1916. 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:122216