Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Enoplina > Superfamily Enoploidea > Family Anticomidae > Genus Anticoma

Anticoma acuminata (Eberth, 1863) Bastian, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Anticoma*	Bastian, 1865	accepted genus name
*Stenolaimus*	Marion, 1870	synonym

Species group names

*Anticoma limalis*	Bastian, 1865	synonym
*Anticoma limalis novozemelica*	Filipjev, 1927	synonym
*Anticoma pellucida*	Bastian, 1865	synonym
*Odontobius acuminatus*	Eberth, 1863	synonym

Literature

basis of record	De Smet, G.; Vincx, M.; Vanreusel, A.; Vanhove, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Steyaert, M. (2001). Nematoda - free living. In: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. 161-174.
additional source	Gheskiere, T. (2000). Structurele diversiteit van nematodengemeenschappen van de Bligh Bank (Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee).
additional source	Fricke, H.; Giere, O.; Stetter, K.; Alfredsson, G. A.; Kristjansson, J. K.; Stoffers, P.; Svavarsson, J. (1989). Hydrothermal vent communities at the shallow subpolar mid-Atlantic ridge. Marine Biology. 102: 425-429.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1932). Zur Kenntnis des Genus Stenolaimus Marion. Jönköping (Privatdruck). 1-8.
additional source	Coomans, A. V. (1989). Overzicht van de vrijlevende nematofauna van België (Nematoda). [The freeliving nematofauna of Belgium: a review.]. In Wouters, K.; Baert, L. (Ed.): Invertebraten van België = Invertébrés de Belgique: Verhandelingen van het Symposium "Invertebraten van België" = Comptes rendus du Symposium "Invertébrés de Belgique" = Proceedings of the Symposium "Invertebrates of Belgium". Brussel, 25-26 november 1988. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussel, Belgium. 43-56.
additional source	Kreis, H. A. (1924). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden marinen Nematoden. Schriften für Süßwasser und Meereskunde, Büsum. 2: 157-170.
additional source	Cobb, N. A. (1898). Australian free-living marine nematodes. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (91) 23 (3): 383-407.
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	Leduc, D.; Gwyther, J. (2008). Description of new species of Setosabatieria and Desmolaimus (Nematoda: Monhysterida) and a checklist of New Zealand free-living marine nematode species. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 42(3): 339-362.
additional source	Warwick, R. M. (1971). Nematode associations in the Exe estuary. J. mar. biol. Ass. U. K. 51: 439-454.
additional source	Vitiello, P. (1985). Structure des peuplements de Nematodes en milieu lagunaire pollué. Actes du 110e congrès national des sociétes savantes fascicule II Extrait Paris cths 1985.
additional source	Pastor de Ward, C. T. (1995). Nematodes marinos (Enoploidea) de la Ria Deseado, Santa Cruz, Argentina.XIV. Physis, Secc. A. 50(118-119): 13-20.
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	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1943). Freilebende marine Nematoden des Mittelmeeres. IV. Freilebende marine Nematoden der Fischereigründe bei Alexandrien. Zool. Jb. (Syst.). 76 (4): 323-378.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1959). Über einige, meistens neue, freilebende marine Nematoden aus dem Feuerland-Archipel (Schwedische Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903). Zoologischer Anzeiger. Bd. 163, Heft 7/8: 222-243.
additional source	Vitiello, P. (1974). Peuplements de nématodes marins des fonds envasés de Provence I. Sédiments vaseux de mode calme et vases terrigènes côtières. Annales de l'Institut ocanographique de Paris. 50 (2): 145-172.
redescription	Allgén, C. A. (1959). Freeliving marine nematodes. Further zoological results of the Swedish Antarctic expedition, 1901-1903 under the direction of Dr. Otto Nordenskjold. V(2) P.A. Norstedt & Söner: Stockholm. 293 pp.
redescription	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1950). The freeliving marine nemas of the Mediterranean: I. The Bay of Villefranche. Mémoires de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, deuxième série = Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Bruxelles. 2(37): 1-220.
new combination reference	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.
taxonomy source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
taxonomy source	Louati, H.; Said, O. B.; Soltani, A.; Cravo-Laureau, C.; Duran, R.; Aissa, P.; Mahmoudi, E.; Pringault, O. (2014). Responses of a free-living benthic marine nematode community to bioremediation of a PAH mixture. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22(20): 15307-15318.
ecology source	Eberth, C. J. (1863). Untersuchungen über Nematoden. Book: Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann. 1-77.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Anticoma acuminata (Eberth, 1863) 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:121767