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

Spilophorella paradoxa (de Man, 1888) Filipjev, 1917

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spilophorella*	Filipjev, 1917	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Spiliphera paradoxa*	de Man, 1888	synonym
*Spilophorella tenuicaudata*	de Man, 1922	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	Kreis, H. A. (1929). Freilebende marine Nematoden von der Nordwest-Küste Frankreichs (Trébeurden Côtes du Nord). Capita Zoologica. II, 7: 1-98.
additional source	Gerlach, S. A. (1957). Marine Nematoden von der Kongo-Mündung. Bull. Inst. r. Sci. nat. Belg. 33 (28): 1-16.
additional source	Pastor de Ward, C. T. (1999). The structure of the genital apparatus in nematoda (Chomadoroidea) from south Atlantic coasts. Physis, Secc. A. 57 (132 - 133): 47 - 54.
additional source	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.
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	Wieser, W. (1955). A collection of marine nematodes from Japan. Publ. Seto Mar. Biol. Lab. IV (2-3): 159-181.
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	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1942). Les nématodes libres marins du Bassin de Chasse d'Ostende [The free-living nematods of the Sluice Dock at Ostend]. Med. K. Belg. Inst. Nat. Wet. 18(12): 1-26.
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	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.
additional source	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1935). Freeliving Marine Nemas of the Belgian Coast. I. and II. Mém. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg. 72: 1-36.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	Gerlach, S. A. (1954). Die freilebenden Nematoden der schleswig-holsteinischen Küsten. Schr. naturw. Ver. Schlesw.-Holst. 27: 44-69.
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	Gheskiere, T. (2000). Structurele diversiteit van nematodengemeenschappen van de Bligh Bank (Zuidelijke Bocht van de Noordzee).
additional source	Hope, W. D. (2009). Free-Living Marine Nematoda of the Gulf of Mexico. in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Pp. 1111–1123.
additional source	De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 42(2): 193 – 200.
additional source	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr. (1954). IX. Vrijlevende Nematoden. Veranderingen in de Flora en Fauna van de Zuiderzee (thans Ijsselmeer) na de afsluiting in 1932. 169-185.
additional source	Heip, C.; Herman, R.; Vincx, M. (1983). Subtidal meiofauna of the North Sea: A review. Biol. Jb. Dodonaea. 51: 116-170.
additional source	Lorenzen, S. (1969). Freilebende Meeresnematoden aus dem Schlickwatt und den Salzwiesen der Nordseeküste. Veröff. Inst. Meeresforsch. Bremerh. XI: 195-238.
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	Allgén, C. A. (1947). West American Marine Nematodes (Papers from Dr. Th. Mortensen's Pacific Expedition 1914-16. LXXV). Vidensk. Medd. fra Dansk naturh. Foren. 110: 65-219.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1953). Revision der freilebenden marinen Nematoden aus der Umgebung der Staatlichen Zoologischen Station Kristineberg an der Westküste Schwedens. Zoologische Jahrbucher (Systematik). 81: 548-603.
redescription	Filipjev, I. N. (1918). Free-living marine nematodes of the Sevastopol area. Transactions of the Zoological Laboratory and the Sevastopol Biological Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Series II No 4 (Issue I & II) (Translated from Russian).
redescription	Allgén, C. A. (1932). Weitere Beiträge zur Kenntnis der marinen Nematodenfauna der Campbellinsel. Nyt Mag. Naturvid. 70: 97-198.
new combination reference	Filipjev, I. N. (1917). Un Nématode libre nouveau de la mer Caspienne, Chromadorissa gen. nov. Chromadoridae, Chromadorini) (in Russian French Res.) Russk.zool.Zh. 2: 24-30.
ecology source	Soetaert, K.. M. Vinckx, J. Wittoeck & M.Tulkens. (1995). Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries. Hydrobiologia. 311: 185-206.
ecology source	Warwick, R. M. (1971). Nematode associations in the Exe estuary. J. mar. biol. Ass. U. K. 51: 439-454.
ecology source	Vincx, M. (1990). Diversity of the nematode communities in the Southern Bight of the North Sea. Netherlands Journal of Sea Research. 25:181-188.
ecology source	de Man, J. G. (1888). Sur quelques nématodes libres de la mer du Nord, nouveaux ou peu connus. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 1: 1-51.
ecology source	Vincx, M. (1989). Free-living marine nematodes from the southern bight of the North sea. Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van België Academia Analecta. 51 (1): 39-70.
identification resource	Watson, B. D. (1965). The fine structure of the body-wall in a free-living nematode, Euchromadora vulgaris. Q. Jl microsc. Sci. 106: 75-81.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Spilophorella paradoxa (de Man, 1888) Filipjev, 1917. 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:120802