Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Ironina > Superfamily Ironoidea > Family Leptosomatidae > Subfamily Thoracostomatinae

Thoracostoma Marion, 1870

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hemipsilus*	de Quatrefages, 1846	synonym

Children

Thoracostoma amphacanthus (Grube, 1855) Bütschli, 1874
Thoracostoma brachylobatum Allgén, 1954
Thoracostoma coecum Ssaweljev, 1912
Thoracostoma coronatum (Eberth, 1863) Marion, 1870
Thoracostoma filiformis (Eberth, 1863) Filipjev, 1921
Thoracostoma hispanicum Platonova, 1970
Thoracostoma multipapillosum Allgén, 1957
Thoracostoma penduli Allgén, 1954
Thoracostoma sivertensi Allgén, 1957
Thoracostoma steineri Micoletzky, 1922
Thoracostoma zolae Marion, 1870

Literature

original description	Marion, A.-F. (1870). Recherches Zoologiques et Anatomiques sur des Nématoides non Parasites, Marins. Annales des Sciences naturelles. 13 (14): 1-102, + Plates.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Boury-Esnault, N., G. Bellan, D. Bellan-Santini, C.F. Boudouresque, P.Chevaldonné, A. Dias, D. Faget, J.G. Harmelin, M. Harmelin-Vivien, C. Lejeusne, T. Pérez, J. Vacelet, M. Verlaque. (2023). The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history. Zootaxa. 5249(2): 213-252.
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	Hope, W. D. (1967). Free-living marine nematodes of the genera Pseudocella Filipjev, 1927, Thoracostoma Marion, 1870, and Deontostoma Filipjev, 1916 (Nematoda: Leptosomatidae) from the West Coast of North America. Trans. Amer. Microsc. Soc. 86 (3): 307-334.
additional source	Da Rocha, C. M. C.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N. C.; Souza, R. B. (2006). Phytal marine nematode assemblages and their relation with the macrophytes structural complexity in a Brazilian tropical rocky beach. Hydrobiologia. 553:219-230.
additional source	Miljutin, D. M.; Gad, G.; Miljutina, M. M.; Mokievsky, V. O.; Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Esteves, A. M. (2010). The state of knowledge on deep-sea nematode taxonomy: how many valid species are known down there?. Marine Biodiversity. 40(3): 143-159.
additional source	Timm, R. W. (1953). Observations on the Morphology and Histological Anatomy of a Marine Nematode, Leptosomatum acephalatum Chitwood, 1936, New Combination (Enoplidae : Leptosomatinae). Am. Midl. Nat. 49 (1): 229-248.
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	Derycke, S.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Rigaux, A.; Backeljau, T.; Moens, T. (2010). Exploring the Use of Cytochrome Oxidase c Subunit 1 (COI) for DNA Barcoding of Free-Living Marine Nematodes. PLoS ONE. 5(10): e13716.
ecology source	Fonsêca-Genevois, V.da., P.J. Somerfield, M.H. Baeta-Neves, R. Coutinho & T. Moens. (2006). Colonization and early succession on artificial hard substrata by meiofauna. Marine Biology 148(5):1039-1050.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Thoracostoma Marion, 1870. 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:2547