Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Rhabditida > Suborder Spirurina > Infraorder Ascaridomorpha > Superfamily Ascaridoidea > Family Anisakidae > Subfamily Anisakinae

Pseudoterranova Mozgovoi, 1951

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Literature

original description	Mozgovoi AA. (1951). The Ascaridata (Anisakoidea) of mammals in the U.S.S.R. Trudi Gelmlntologicheskoi Laboratorii Akademii Nauk SSSR. 5:14-22.
additional source	Gibson, D. I.; Colin, J. A. (1982). The Terranova enigma. Parasitology. 85(2): xxxvi - xxxvii.
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Mosgovoy, A. A. (1951). Suborder Ascaridata Skrjabin 1915. In: Skrjabin KI, Shikhobalova NP, Mozgovoi AA, (Eds) Keys to Parasitic Nematodes, Vol. II. Moscow: Acad.Nauk. 407-566. (In Russian).
redescription	Bao, M., Giulietti, L., Levsen, A., and Karlsbakk, E. (2023). Resurrection of genus Phocanema Myers, 1959, as a genus independent from Pseudoterranova Mozgovoĭ, 1953, for nematode species (Anisakidae) parasitic in pinnipeds and cetaceans, respectively. Parasitology International. 97 (2023) 102794.
taxonomy source	Moravec, F.; Justine, J.-L. (2020). Erection of Euterranova n. gen. and Neoterranova n. gen. (Nematoda, Anisakidae), with the description of E. dentiduplicata n. sp. and new records of two other anisakid nematodes from sharks off New Caledonia. Parasite. 27: 58.
taxonomy source	Bao, M., Giulietti, L., Levsen, A., and Karlsbakk, E. (2023). Resurrection of genus Phocanema Myers, 1959, as a genus independent from Pseudoterranova Mozgovoĭ, 1953, for nematode species (Anisakidae) parasitic in pinnipeds and cetaceans, respectively. Parasitology International. 97 (2023) 102794.
taxonomy source	Takano, T.; Sata, N. (2022). Multigene phylogenetic analysis reveals non-monophyly of Anisakis s.l. and Pseudoterranova (Nematoda: Anisakidae). Parasitology International. 91: 102631.

Genbank

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Pseudoterranova Mozgovoi, 1951. 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:22953

Dr. David Gibson. Pseudoterranova Mozgovoi, 1951. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/f94a54d9-8574-4fa6-a9f5-1a26891500de