Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Chromadorida > Suborder Chromadorina > Superfamily Chromadoroidea > Family Ethmolaimidae > Subfamily Neotonchinae

Comesa Gerlach, 1956

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Comesa cuanensis (Platt, 1982)
Comesa interrupta (Warwick, 1971)
Comesa vitia (Warwick, 1971)
Comesa votadinii (Warwick, 1971)
Comesa warwicki (Platt, 1982)

Literature

original description	Gerlach, S. A. (1956). Diagnosen neuer Nematoden aus der Kieler Bucht. Kieler Meeresforsch. 12: 85-109.
basis of record	Warwick, R. M.; Platt, H. M.; Somerfield, P. J. (1998). Free-living Marine Nematodes Part III. Monhysterids. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 53. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury. ISBN 1-85153-260-9. VII, 296 pp.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785.
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	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	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.
additional source	Dando, P. R.; Austen, M. C.; Burke, Jr. R. A.; Kendall, M. A.; Kennicutt, II M. C.; Judd, A. G.; Moore, D. C.; O'Hara, S. C. M.; Schmaljohann, R.; Southward, A. J. (1991). Ecology of a North Sea pockmark with an active methane seep. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 70: 49-63.
taxonomy source	Bezerra, T. N.; Pape, E.; Hauquier, F; Vanreusel, A.; Ingels, J. (2013). New genus and two new species of the family Ethmolaimidae (Nematoda: Chromadorida), found in two different cold-seep environments. Zootaxa. 3692(1): 7.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Comesa Gerlach, 1956. 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:227501