Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmoscolecida > Suborder Desmoscolecina > Superfamily Desmoscolecoidea

Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Desmoscolecinae
Greeffiellini Filipjev, 1929
Pareudesmoscolex Weischer, 1962
Tricominae Lorenzen, 1969

Literature

basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Timm, R. W. (1971). A Revision of the Nematode Order Desmoscolecida Filipjev, 1929. Nematologica. 17 : 494.
additional source	Decraemer, W. (1979). Taxonomic problems within the Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bel. 108(1-2): 9-16.
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.
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	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	Lim, H. W.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Tricoma (Quadricoma) jindoensis, a New Species of Marine Interstitial Nematoda (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae) from Jindo Island, Korea. The Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, special issue. 5:61-70.
taxonomy source	Lim, H. W.; Lee, J. M.; Chang, C. Y. (2005). Two new marine nematodes of subgenus Quadricoma (Desmoscolecida: Desmoscolecidae: Tricoma) from Korea. Integrative biosciences. 9, A632.
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

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Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896. 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:2173

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Desmoscolecidae Shipley, 1896. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/27d4cac0-4209-4ee1-b434-7143be65a009