Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Plectida > Suborder Plectina > Superfamily Plectoidea > Family Plectidae > Subfamily Plectinae > Genus Plectus

Plectus longicaudatus Bütschli, 1873

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plectus*	Bastian, 1865	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Bütschli, O. (1873). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden. Nova Acta der Kaiserlich Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der Natutforscher. 36: 1-144.
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	Yeates, G. W. (2010). Phylum Nematoda: roundworms, eelworms. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 480-493.
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.
redescription	Zell, H. (1993). Die Gattung Plectus Bastian, 1865 sensu lato (Nematoda, Plectidae). Ein Beitrag zur Ökologie, Biogeographie, Phylogenie und Taxonomie der Plectidae. Andrias. 11: 3-90.
ecology source	Andrássy, I. (1990). Free-living nematoda in the Hungarian fauna. Állattani Közlemények. LXXVI: 17-38.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Plectus longicaudatus Bütschli, 1873. 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:229343

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Plectus longicaudatus Bütschli, 1873. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2e4209ae-f852-4709-bbd2-c4d2dcbab7bc