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

Perspiria Wieser & Hopper, 1967

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Perspiria flagellata Vitiello, 1971
Perspiria hamata Wieser & Hopper, 1967

Literature

original description	Wieser, W.; Hopper, B. (1967). Marine nematodes of the east coast of North America. I. Florida Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 135: 239-344.
basis of record	Warwick, R. M.; Platt, H. M.; Somerfield, P. J. (1998). Free-living Marine Nematodes Part III. Monhysterids. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 53. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury. ISBN 1-85153-260-9. VII, 296 pp.
additional source	Venekey, V.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Santos, P. J. P. (2010). Biodiversity of free-living marine nematodes on the coast of Brazil: a review. Zootaxa. 2568: 39–66.
redescription	Vincx, M.; Gourbault, N. (1989). Desmodoridae from the Bay of Morlaix (Brittany) and the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. Station Biologique de Roscoff. 30(1): 103-11.
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.
biology source	Baldrighi, E.; Dovgal, I.; Zeppilli, D.; Abibulaeva, A.; Michelet, C.; Michaud, E.; Franzo, A.; Grassi, E.; Cesaroni, L.; Guidi, L.; Balsamo, M.; Sandulli, R.; Semprucci, F. (2020). The Cost for Biodiversity: Records of Ciliate–Nematode Epibiosis with the Description of Three New Suctorian Species. Diversity. 12(6): 224.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Perspiria Wieser & Hopper, 1967. 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:227498