Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Desmodorida > Suborder Desmodorina > Superfamily Desmodoroidea > Family Desmodoridae > Subfamily Spiriniinae

Onyx Cobb, 1891

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Oistolaimus*	Ditlevsen, 1921	synonym

Children

Onyx litorale (Schulz, 1938) Armenteros et al., 2014
Onyx monstrosum (Gerlach, 1956) Armenteros et al., 2014
Onyx perfectus Cobb, 1891
Onyx sagittarius Gerlach, 1950

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1891). Onyx and Dipeltis: new Nematode Genera, with a note on Dorylaimus. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 2(6): 143-158.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Anonymous. (1973). Heterodera Rostochiensis Tatu 1973. H.H.3717. VI 73. 500. MB.05203.
additional source	Guo, Y.; Helléouet, M.-N.; Boucher, G. (2008). Spatial patterns of meiofauna and diversity of nematode species assemblages in the Uvea lagoon (Loyalty Islands, South Pacific). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 88(5), 931–940.
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.
additional source	Baguley, J.G., L.J. Hyde & P.A. Montagna. (2004). A semi-automated digital microphotographic approach to measure meiofaunal biomass. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 225: 181-190.
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.; 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	Féral, J.-P. (2002). Review article: How useful are the genetic markers in attempts to understand and manage marine biodiversity?. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 268: 121-145.
taxonomy source	Tchesunov, A. V.; Jeong, R.; Lee, W. (2022). Onyx disparamphis sp. n. (Nematoda, Desmodorida) from South Korea with a taxonomic review of the genus. PeerJ. 10: e13010.
taxonomy source	Blome, D. and Riemann, F. (1994). Sandy Beach Meiofauna of Eastern Australia (Southern Queensland and New South Wales). III* Revision of the Nematode Genus Onyx Cobb, 1891, with a Description of Three New Species (Nematoda: Desmodorida). Invertebrate Taxonomy. 8(6): 1483-1492.
taxonomy source	Tu, N. D.; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A.; Thanh Nguyen Vu. (2011). Six new species of the genus Onyx Cobb, 1891 (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) from coastal areas in Vietnam. Russian Journal of Nematology. 19(1): 1-20.
taxonomy source	Huang, Y.; Wang, H. (2015). Review of Onyx Cobb (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) with description of two new species from the Yellow Sea, China. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 95(06): 1127-1132.
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. Onyx Cobb, 1891. 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:2597