Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Oncholaimina > Superfamily Oncholaimoidea > Family Enchelidiidae

Polygastrophora de Man, 1922

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Polygastrophora alexandriae (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1943) Wieser, 1953
Polygastrophora attenuata de Man, 1922
Polygastrophora hexabulba (Filipjev, 1918) Filipjev in Kreis, 1926
Polygastrophora maior Schulz, 1932

Literature

original description	de Man, J. G. (1922). Neue freilebende Nematoden aus der Zuidersee. Tijdschr. ned. dierk. Vereen. 2 (18): 124-134.
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	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	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	Da Fonseca-Genevois, V.; Smol, N.; Decraemer, W.; Venekey, V. (2009). Bernardius lineatus gen. n., sp. n. (Enoplida: Enchelidiidae), a remarkable nematode with ornamented cuticle from a Brazilian tropical sandy beach. Nematology. 11(2): 275-287.
additional source	Huang, Y.; Zhang, Z. (2004). A new genus and three new species of free-living marine nematodes (Nematoda: Enoplida: Enchelidiidae) from the Yellow Sea, China. China Cah. Biol. Mar. 45: 343-354.
additional source	Vanaverbeke, J.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2007). Changes in nematode communities at the long-term sand extraction site of the Kwintebank (Southern Bight of the North Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54(9): 1351-1360.
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	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	Belogurova, L. S.; Belogurov, O. I.; Khamula, E. S. (1986). New species of Enchelidiid nematodes from Tratar Strait. Marine Biology (Vladivostok). No 3, p. 25-30.
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. Polygastrophora de Man, 1922. 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:2563