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

Oncholaimus Dujardin, 1845

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oncholaimium*	Cobb, 1930	synonym

Children

Oncholaimus aegypticus Steiner, 1921
Oncholaimus attenuatus Dujardin, 1845
Oncholaimus brachycercus de Man, 1889
Oncholaimus brevicaudatus Filipjev, 1918
Oncholaimus campylocercoides De Coninck & Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1933
Oncholaimus conicauda Filipjev, 1929
Oncholaimus curvicauda Allgén, 1957
Oncholaimus donsi (Allgén, 1947) Wieser, 1953
Oncholaimus dujardinii de Man, 1876
Oncholaimus groenlandicus Ditlevsen, 1926
Oncholaimus lanceolatus Vitiello, 1970
Oncholaimus marinus Schulz, 1932
Oncholaimus medius Kreis, 1928
Oncholaimus onchouris Ditlevsen, 1928
Oncholaimus oxyuris Ditlevsen, 1911
Oncholaimus paroxyuris Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1942
Oncholaimus roervikensis Allgén, 1946
Oncholaimus scanicus (Allgén, 1935) Wieser, 1953
Oncholaimus septentrionalis Filipjev, 1927
Oncholaimus serratus Allgén, 1935
Oncholaimus skawensis Ditlevsen, 1921
Oncholaimus spissus Allgén, 1935
Oncholaimus steinboecki Ditlevsen, 1928
Oncholaimus steineri Ditlevsen, 1928
Oncholaimus vesicarius (Wieser, 1959) Rachor, 1969
Oncholaimus viridis Bastian, 1865

Literature

original description	Dujardin, F. (1845). Histoire naturelle des helminthes ou vers intestinaux. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret. Paris. xvi + 654 + 15 pp., pls. 1-12.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Schuurmans Stekhoven, J. H. Jr.; Mawson, P. M. (1954). Free-living nematodes, mostly from Asia. Arkiv för Zoologi. 7 (18): 273-279.
additional source	Wieser, W. (1960). Benthic studies in Buzzards Bay II. The meiofauna. Limnology and Oceanography. 5 (2): 121-137.
additional source	Vincx, M. (1989). Seasonal fluctuations and production of nematode communities in the Belgian coastal zone of the North Sea. Verhandelingen van het symposium "Invertebraten van Belgie". 57-66.
additional source	Meyl, A.H. (1954). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Nematodenfauna vulkanisch erhitzter Biotope. III. Mitteilung. Nematoden aus der Mischungszone strandnaher, heisser Süßwasserquellen mit dem Meerwasser auf der Insel Ischia. Z. Morph. Ökol., Tiere. 42: 421-448.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
additional source	Cobb, N. A. (1894). Tricoma and other nematode genera. The proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales (Second Series). Vol. VIII, 389-421 -With 28 plates.
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.
additional source	Gerlach, S. A. (1965). Freilebende Meeresnematoden aus der Gezeitenzone von Spitzbergen. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven. 9: 109-172.
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	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	Copley, J. T. P.; Flint, H. C.; Ferrero, T. J.; Van Dover, C. L. (2007). Diversity of meiofauna and free-living nematodes in hydrothermal vant mussel beds on the northern and southern East Pacific Rise. J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K.
additional source	Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736.
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	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	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	Vanreusel, A.; Van Den Bossche, I.; Thiermann, F. (1997). Free-living marine nematodes from hydrothermal sediments: similarities with communities from diverse reduced habitats. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 157: 207-219.
additional source	Gobin, J. F. (2007). Free-living marine nematodes of hard bottom substrates in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81(1): 73–84.
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	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	Leduc, D. (2009). Description of Oncholaimus moanae sp. nov. (Nematoda: Oncholaimidae), with notes on feeding ecology based on isotopic and fatty acid composition. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 89(2): 337-344.
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.
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
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Oncholaimus Dujardin, 1845. 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:2573