Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Araeolaimida > Superfamily Axonolaimoidea > Family Axonolaimidae

Parodontophora Timm, 1963

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Parodontophora breviseta (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950)
Parodontophora chiliensis (Murphy, 1966) Gerlach & Riemann, 1973
Parodontophora pacifica (Allgén, 1947) Timm, 1963
Parodontophora quadristicha (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Timm, 1963

Literature

original description	Timm, R. W. (1963). Marine nematodes of the suborder Monhysterina from the Arabian Sea at Karachi. Proc. helminth. Soc. Wash. 30 (1): 34-49.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	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	Zeppilli, D. & R. Danovaro (2009). Meiofaunal diversity and assemblage structure in a shallow-water hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean. Aquatic Biology. 5(1):75-84.
additional source	Zhang, Z. N. (2005). Three new species of free‐living marine nematodes from the Bohai Sea and Yellow Sea, China. Journal of Natural History. 39(23): 2109-2123.
additional source	Verschelde, D.; Nicholas, W.; Vincx, M. (2006). A Review of the Genera Croconema Cobb, 1920 and Pseudochromadora Daday, 1899 (Nematoda, Desmodoroidea): New Species from the Coasts of Kenya and Australia. Hydrobiologia. 571, 17-40.
additional source	Wu, J.; Somerfield, P. J.; Austen, M. C.; Liang, Y. (2000). The freeliving nematode genus Parodontophora Timm 1963 (Nematoda: Axonolaimidae) is not exclusively marine: Parodontophora limnophila sp. nov. from freshwater in China. Hydrobiologia. 431(2), 205-210.
additional source	De Oliveira Pinto, T.K.,Netto, S.A., Esteves, A.M., De Castro, F.J.V., Neres, P.F. and Da Silva, M.C. (2021). Free-living freshwater nematodes from Brazil: checklist of genera and regional patterns of diversity. Nematology. 0 (2021) 1-14.
taxonomy source	Belogurov, O. I. and Kartavtseva, I. V. (1975). Diagnoses of the Genera Parascolaimus, Parodontophora, Synodontium, Synodontoides of the Subfamily Axonolaiminae with the Description of Some Far Eastern Species. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 54(9): 1284-1292.
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.
identification resource	LI, Y.; Guo, Y. (2016). Free living marine nematodes of the genus Parodontophora (Axonolaimidae) from the East China Sea, with descriptions of five new species and a pictorial key. Zootaxa. 4109(4): 401.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Parodontophora Timm, 1963. 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:2420