Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Plectida > Suborder Plectina > Superfamily Plectoidea > Family Plectidae > Subfamily Plectinae > Genus Plectus

Plectus parvus Bastian, 1865

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Plectus*	Bastian, 1865	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Bastian, H. C. (1865). Monograph of the Anguillulidae, or Free Nematoids, Marine, Land, and Freshwater; with Descriptions of 100 New Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Volume XXV. Part II:73-184.
basis of record	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	Yeates, G. W. (2010). Phylum Nematoda: roundworms, eelworms. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 480-493.
additional source	Phillips, L.M., R.I. Leihy & S.L. Chown. (2022). Improving species‐based area protection in Antarctica. Conservation Biology. 36(4): e13885.Aug 2022.
additional source	Gerlach, S. A. (1954). Die freilebenden Nematoden der schleswig-holsteinischen Küsten. Schr. naturw. Ver. Schlesw.-Holst. 27: 44-69.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1925). Beiträge zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden Schwedens. Arkiv för Zoologi. 18 A (5): 1-40.
redescription	Zell, H. (1993). Die Gattung Plectus Bastian, 1865 sensu lato (Nematoda, Plectidae). Ein Beitrag zur Ökologie, Biogeographie, Phylogenie und Taxonomie der Plectidae. Andrias. 11: 3-90.
ecology source	Andrássy, I. (1990). Free-living nematoda in the Hungarian fauna. Állattani Közlemények. LXXVI: 17-38.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Plectus parvus Bastian, 1865. 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:229346

Dr. Vlada Peneva. Plectus parvus Bastian, 1865. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/c62696cd-858d-44f5-b2d8-8757d822cd2f