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

Croconema mediterraneum Wieser, 1954

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Croconema*	Cobb, 1920	accepted genus name
*Aculeonchus*	Kreis, 1928	synonym
*Desmodora (Croconema)*	Cobb, 1920	synonym

Species group names

*Desmodora (Croconema) mediterranea*	Wieser, 1954	synonym
*Desmodora mediterranea*	(Wieser, 1954)	synonym

Literature

original description	Wieser, W. (1954). Untersuchungen über die algenbewohnende Mikrofauna mariner Hartböden III. Zur Systematik der freilebenden Nematoden des Mittelmeeres. Mit einer ökologischen Untersuchung über die Beziehung zwischen Nematodenbesiedlung und Sedimentreichtum des Habitats. Hydrobiologia. 6(1-2), 144-217.
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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Croconema mediterraneum Wieser, 1954. 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:583470