Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmodorida > Suborder Desmodorina > Superfamily Desmodoroidea > Family Desmodoridae > Subfamily Spiriniinae

Metachromadora Filipjev, 1918

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Metachromadora cystoseirae Filipjev, 1918
Metachromadora macroutera Filipjev, 1918
Metachromadora quadribulba Gerlach, 1956
Metachromadora scotlandica Warwick & Platt, 1973
Metachromadora suecica (Allgén, 1929) Schulz, 1938

Literature

original description	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).
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	Furstenberg, J. P.; Vincx, M. (1988). Three new Chromadoropsis species (Nematoda, Desmodoridae) from Southern Africa and the North Sea. S. Afr. J. Zool. 23(3): 215-223.
additional source	Franco, M.; Steyaert, M.; Cabral, H.; Tenreiro, R.; Chambel, L.; Vincx, M.; Costa, M.; Vanaverbeke, J. (2008). Impact of discards of beam trawl fishing on the nematode community from the Tagus estuary (Portugal). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 56(10): 1728-1736.
additional source	Steyaert, M.; Moodley, L.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vandewiele, S.; Vincx, M. (2005). Laboratory experiments on the infaunal activity of intertidal nematodes. Hydrobiologia. 540(1-3): 217-223.
additional source	Derycke, S.; Van Vynckt, R.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vincx, M.; Moens, T. (2007). Colonization patterns of Nematoda on decomposing algae in the estuarine environment: community assembly and genetic structure of the dominant species Pellioditis marina. Limnology and Oceanography. 52(3): 992-1001.
additional source	Neira, C.; Decraemer, W. (2009). Desmotersia levinae, a new genus and new species of free-living nematode from bathyal oxygen minimum zone sediments off Callao, Peru, with discussion on the classification of the genus Richtersia (Chromadorida: Selachinematidae). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 9(1): 1.e1-1.e15.
additional source	Li, J.; Vincx, M. (1993). The temporal variation of intertidal nematodes in the Westerschelde. I. The importance of an estuarine gradient. Netherlands Journal of Aquatic Ecology. 27 (2-4): 319-326.
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	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	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.
taxonomy source	Timm, R. W. (1954). A survey of the marine nematodes of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland. The Catholic University of America, Biological Studies. 23: 70pp - A dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Metachromadora Filipjev, 1918. 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:2346