Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmodorida > Suborder Desmodorina > Superfamily Desmodoroidea

Desmodoridae Filipjev, 1922

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Desmodorinae Filipjev, 1922
Molgolaiminae Jensen, 1978
Prodesmodorinae Lorenzen, 1981
Pseudonchinae Gerlach & Riemann, 1973
Spiriniinae Chitwood, 1936
Stilbonematinae Chitwood, 1936

Literature

basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Flint, H. C.; Copley, J. T. P.; Ferrero, T. J.; Van Dover, C. L. (2006). Patterns of nematode diversity at hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 365-370.
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	Ingels, J.; Vanhove, S.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). The biodiversity and biogeography of the free-living nematode genera Desmodora and Desmodorella (family Desmodoridae) at both sides of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology. 29(11): 936-949.
additional source	Vincx, M. (1990). Diversity of the nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research. 25:181-188.
additional source	Dinet, A., F. Grassle & V. Tunnicliffe. (1988). Premières observations sur la méiofaune des sites hydrothermaux de la dorsale Est-Pacifique (Guaymas, 21°N) et de l'Explorer Ridge. First observations on the meiofauna of the hydrothermal sites of the East-Pacific Ridge (Guaymas, 21°N) and the Explorer Ridge. Oceanologica Acta. 8: 7-14.
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.
taxonomy source	Leduc, D.; Verschelde, D. (2015). New Spirinia and Stygodesmodora species (Nematoda, Spiriniinae) from the Southwest Pacific, and revision of the related genera Spirinia, Chromaspirina and Perspiria. European Journal of Taxonomy. (118): 1-25.
taxonomy source	Armenteros, M.; Ruiz-Abierno, A.; Decraemer, W. (2014). Revision of Desmodorinae and Spiriniinae (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) with redescription of eight known species. European Journal of Taxonomy. 96: 1–32.
taxonomy source	Schmidt-Rhaesa, A. (Ed.). (2014). Handbook of Zoology. Gastrotricha, Cycloneuralia and Gnathifera: 2. Nematoda. Handbook of Zoology (2010) Walter De Gruyter: Berlin. 759 pp.
taxonomy source	Leduc, D.; Verschelde, D. (2013). One new genus and two new free-living nematode species (Desmodorida, Desmodoridae) from the continental margin of New Zealand, Southwest Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa. 3609(3), 274-290.
taxonomy source	Tu, N.D.; Thanh Nguyen Vu; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A. (2008). New genus Asymmelaimus gen. n., sp. n. and new marine nematode species of the subfamily Dorylaimopsinae de Coninck, 1965 (Comesomatidae Filipjev, 1918) from Halong Bay, Vietnam. Russian Journal of Nematology. 16 (1), 7-16.
taxonomy source	De Ley, P.; Blaxter, M. L. (2004). A new system for Nematoda: combining morphological characters with molecular trees, and translating clades into ranks and taxa. Nematology Monographs & Perspectives - Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Nematology 8 - 13 June 2002, Tenerife, Spain. 2: 633-653.
taxonomy source	Tchesunov, A. V.; Ingels, J.; Popova, E. V. (2012). Marine free-living nematodes associated with symbiotic bacteria in deep-sea canyons of north-east Atlantic Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 92(06): 1257-1271.
ecology source	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmodoridae Filipjev, 1922. 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:2167

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Desmodoridae Filipjev, 1922. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2a8a93a2-6eba-44a5-8e7f-9642b646ff2f