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

Monhystrella Cobb, 1918

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Monhystrella anophthalma (Lorenzen, 1969) Jacobs, 1987
Monhystrella bulbifera (de Man, 1880)
Monhystrella hastata Andrássy, 1968
Monhystrella inaequispiculum Lorenzen, 1979
Monhystrella lepidura (Andrássy, 1963) Andrássy, 1968
Monhystrella macrura (de Man, 1880) Andrássy, 1981
Monhystrella microphthalma (de Man, 1880) Jacobs, 1987
Monhystrella paraelegantula (de Coninck, 1943)
Monhystrella paramacrura (Meyl, 1954)
Monhystrella parelegantula (De Coninck, 1943) Andrássy, 1981
Monhystrella plectoides (Cobb, 1918)
Monhystrella salina (Meyl, 1954)
Monhystrella thermophila (Meyl, 1953)

Literature

original description	Timm, R. W. (1964). The nematode genus Monhystrella (Cobb, 1918), with a description of a marine species. Trans. Am. microsc. Soc. 83 (1): 23-26.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Decraemer, W.; Coomans, A. (1978). Scientific Report on the Belgian Expedition to The Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes XII. Ecological Notes on the Nematode Fauna in and around Mangroves on Lizard Island. Aust. J. Mar. Freshwater Res. 29, 497-508.
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.
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.
source of synonymy	Fonseca, G.; Decraemer, W. (2008). State of the art of the free-living marine Monhysteridae (Nematoda). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(7): 1371–1390.
ecology source	Raes, M.; De Troch, M.; Ndaro, S. G. M.; Muthumbi, A.; Guilini, K.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). The structuring role of microhabitat type in coral degradation zones: a case study with marine nematodes from Kenya and Zanzibar. Coral Reefs. 26 (1): 13-126.
identification resource	Fonseca, G.; Decraemer, W. (2008). State of the art of the free-living marine Monhysteridae (Nematoda). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(7): 1371–1390.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Monhystrella Cobb, 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:153352

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Monhystrella Cobb, 1918. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/3cd1b772-b794-4ceb-8720-7e65996a0368