Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Ironina > Superfamily Ironoidea > Family Ironidae > Subfamily Ironinae

Ironus Bastian, 1865

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Ironus americanus Cobb, 1910
Ironus colourus Steiner, 1919
Ironus elegans Colomba & Vinciguerra, 1979
Ironus gagarini Tsalolikhin, 1987
Ironus helveticus Daday, 1911
Ironus ignavus Bastian, 1865
Ironus longicaudatus de Man, 1884
Ironus macramphis Schuurmans Stekhoven & Teunissen, 1938
Ironus rotundicaudatus Kreis, 1924
Ironus tenuicaudatus de Man, 1876

Literature

original description	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.
basis of record	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	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	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.
additional source	Shokoohi, E.; Abolafia, J.; Mehrabi-Nasab, A. (2013). Studies on Ironus Bastian, 1865 (Enoplida: Ironidae) from Iran with a comment on its phylogenetic position. Nematology. 1-15.
additional source	Timm, R. W.; Ameen, M. (1960). Nematodes Associated With Commercial Crops In East Pakistan. Agriculture Pakistan. 11 (3) : 1-9.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
taxonomy source	Tsalolikhin, S. Y. (1987). Revision of the genus Ironus (Nematoda, Dorylaimida). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal [Zoological Journal]. 65 (5): 662-673.
ecology source	Allgén, C. A. (1939). Über einen Fall von "Cannibalismus" in der Gattung Bathylaimus Cobb. Folia Zoologica et Hydrobiologica. 9 (2): 316-318.
identification resource	Ebsary, B. A. (1985). Two new aquatic species of Ironus Bastian, 1865 (Nematoda: Ironidae) from Canada. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 63(6): 1368-1370.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Ironus Bastian, 1865. 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:227322

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Ironus Bastian, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/9978f3c1-48c0-4aa4-b0dd-4d92eef3687d