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

Paracanthonchus Micoletzky, 1924

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Paraseuratiella*	Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950	synonym

Children

Paracanthonchus angulatus (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus barka Inglis, 1962
Paracanthonchus bipapillatus Kreis, 1928
Paracanthonchus breviseta (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Hope & Murphy, 1972
Paracanthonchus caecus (Bastian, 1865) Micoletzky, 1924
Paracanthonchus elongatus (de Man, 1907) Micoletzky, 1924
Paracanthonchus filipjevi Micoletzky, 1924
Paracanthonchus heterodontus (Schulz, 1932) Vincx et al., 1982
Paracanthonchus longicaudatus Warwick, 1971
Paracanthonchus longus Allgén, 1934
Paracanthonchus macrodon (Ditlevsen, 1918) Micoletzky, 1924
Paracanthonchus major (Kreis, 1928) Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus micoletzkyi Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1943
Paracanthonchus microdon (Ditlevsen, 1918) Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus multitubifer Timm, 1961
Paracanthonchus nannodontus (Schulz, 1932) Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus paradoxus Allgén, 1929
Paracanthonchus platti Jayasree Vadhyar, 1980
Paracanthonchus spectabilis Allgén, 1931
Paracanthonchus stekhoveni Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus steueri (Micoletzky, 1922) Micoletzky, 1924
Paracanthonchus sunesoni (Allgén, 1942) Wieser, 1954
Paracanthonchus thaumasius (Schulz, 1932) Vincx et al., 1982
Paracanthonchus tyrrhenicus (Brunetti, 1949) Gerlach, 1953
Paracanthonchus uniformis (Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1950) Wieser, 1954

Literature

original description	Micoletzky, H. (1924). Letzter Bericht über freilebende Nematoden aus Suez. Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Mathem.-naturw. Klasse. Abteilung I, Band 133, Heft 4/6: 137-179.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
additional source	Soetaert, K.. M. Vinckx, J. Wittoeck & M.Tulkens. (1995). Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries. Hydrobiologia. 311: 185-206.
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	Steyaert, M.; Moodley, L.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Vandewiele, S.; Vincx, M. (2005). Laboratory experiments on the infaunal activity of intertidal nematodes. Hydrobiologia. 540(1-3): 217-223.
additional source	Zekely, J.; Gollner, S.; Van Dover, C. L.; Govenar, B.; Le Bris, N.; Nemeschkal, H. L.; Bright, M. (2006). Nematode communities associated with tubeworm and mussel aggregations on the East Pacific Rise. Cah. Biol. Mar. 47: 477-482.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Galéron, J.; Sibuet, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Deep-sea habitat heterogeneity influence on meiofaunal communities in the Gulf of Guinea. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 56(23): 2259-2269.
additional source	Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].
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	Gerlach, S. A. (1965). Freilebende Meeresnematoden aus der Gezeitenzone von Spitzbergen. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven. 9: 109-172.
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	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	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	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	Pastor de Ward, C. T. (2001). A new nematode from West Patagonian coasts Biarmifer madrynensis sp. N., with a redefinition of genus Biamifer Wieser 1954 (Nematoda, Cyatholaimidae). Biologie. 71: 139-149.
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	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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Vitiello, P. (1970). Nématodes libres marins des vases profondes du Golfe du Lion. II. Chromadorida. Téthys. 2: 449-500.
additional source	Van Gaever, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Hughes, J.; Bett, B.; Kiriakoulakis, K. (1999). The macro- and micro-scale patchiness of meiobenthos associated with the Darwin Mounds (north-east Atlantic). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK. 84(3): 547-556.
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	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	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	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
additional source	Shirayama, Y. (1992). Studies of meiofauna collected from the Iheya Ridge during the dive 541 of the "SHINKAI 2000". Proc. JAMSTEC symp. deep Sea Research. 8, 287-291.
additional source	Warwick, R. M.; Buchanan, J. B. (1970). The meiofauna off the coast of Northumberland. I. The structure of the nematode population. J. mar. biol. Ass. U. K. 50: 129-146.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Maria, T. F.; Esteves, A. M.; Smol, N.; Vanreusel, A.; Decraemer, W. (2008). Nematodes from sandy beaches of Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Biociências, Porto Alegre. 16 (2), 92-103.
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	Zekely, J.; Van Dover, C.; Nemeschkal, H.; Bright, M. (2006). Hydrothermal vent meiobenthos associated with mytilid mussel aggregations from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 53(8): 1363-1378.
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.
ecology source	Raes, M.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). Microhabitat type determines the composition of nematode communities associated with sediment-clogged cold-water coral framework in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic). Deep-Sea Research Part I. 53 (12): 880-1894.
ecology 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.
identification resource	Miljutina, M. A.; Miljutin, D. M. (2015). A revision of the genus Paracanthonchus (Cyatholaimidae, Nematoda) with a tabular key to species and a description of P. mamubiae sp. n. from the deep North-Western Pacific. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 111: 104-118.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Paracanthonchus Micoletzky, 1924. 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:2320