Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Chromadorida > Suborder Chromadorina > Superfamily Chromadoroidea > Family Chromadoridae > Subfamily Euchromadorinae

Actinonema Cobb, 1920

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Adeuchromadora*	Boucher & De Bovée, 1971	synonym

Children

Actinonema celtica Boucher, 1976
Actinonema fidatum Vitiello, 1970
Actinonema longicaudatum (Steiner, 1918) Wieser, 1954
Actinonema pachydermatum Cobb, 1920

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1920). One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). Contributions to a science of nematology. 9: 217-343.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	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.
additional source	Copley, J. T. P.; Flint, H. C.; Ferrero, T. J.; Van Dover, C. L. (2007). Diversity of meiofauna and free-living nematodes in hydrothermal vant mussel beds on the northern and southern East Pacific Rise. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.
additional source	Vanreusel, A.; Van Den Bossche, I.; Thiermann, F. (1997). Free-living marine nematodes from hydrothermal sediments: similarities with communities from diverse reduced habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 157: 207-219.
additional source	Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(5), 931–940.
additional source	Maria, T. F.; Esteves, A. M.; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A.; Decraemer, W. (2008). Nematodes from sandy beaches of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biociências, Porto Alegre. 16 (2), 92-103.
additional source	Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84.
additional source	Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159.
additional source	Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
ecology 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.
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.
ecology source	Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(9): 1521-1539.
ecology source	Raes, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Microhabitat type determines the composition of nematode communities associated with sediment-clogged cold-water coral framework in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I. 53 (12): 880-1894.
identification resource	Muthumbi, A. W.; Vincx, M. (1998). Chromadoridae (Chromadorida: Nematoda) from the Indian Ocean: Difficulties in morphological identification of Actinonema Cobb, 1920 and Rhips, Cobb, 1920. Hydrobiologia. 364: 155-167.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Actinonema Cobb, 1920. 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:2283