Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Monhysterida > Suborder Monhysterina > Superfamily Sphaerolaimoidea > Family Xyalidae

Scaptrella Cobb, 1917

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Scaptrella brevicaudata Gerlach, 1953
Scaptrella cincta Cobb, 1917
Scaptrella tenuicaudata Gerlach, 1956

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1917). Notes on Nemas. Contrib. to a Science of Nematology (Baltimore). 5: 117-128.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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	Venekey, V.; Gheller, P. F.; Maria, T. F.; Brustolin, M. C.; Kandratavicius, N.; Vieira, D. C.; Brito, S.; Souza, G. S.; Fonseca, G. (2014). The state of the art of Xyalidae (Nematoda, Monhysterida) with reference to the Brazilian records. Marine Biodiversity. 44(3): 367-390.
additional source	Armenteros, M.; Vincx, M.; Decraemer, W. (2010). Guitartia tridentata n. gen., n. sp. (Monhysterida: Xyalidae) and Macrodontium gaspari n. gen., n. sp. (Chromadorida: Microlaimidae), free-living marine nematodes from the Caribbean Sea. Nematology. 12 (3): 417-427.
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	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.
taxonomy source	Jacob, J.; Abdul Jaleel, K. U.; Philip, R.; Damodaran, R. (2015). A new species ofScaptrella(Nematoda: Monhysterida) from the continental margin of the southeastern Arabian Sea. Marine Biology Research. 11(6): 671-676.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Scaptrella Cobb, 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:2466