Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Chromadorea > Subclass Chromadoria > Order Araeolaimida > Superfamily Axonolaimoidea > Family Axonolaimidae

Odontophora Bütschli, 1874

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Conolaimus*	Filipjev, 1918	synonym
*Trigonolaimus*	Ditlevsen, 1918	synonym

Children

Odontophora angustilaima (Filipjev, 1918) Allgén, 1929
Odontophora armata (Ditlevsen, 1918) Allgén, 1929
Odontophora exharena Warwick & Platt, 1973
Odontophora fatisca Vitiello, 1971
Odontophora longicaudata Schuurmans Stekhoven & De Coninck, 1933
Odontophora longisetosa (Allgén, 1928)
Odontophora marina Bütschli, 1874
Odontophora octoseta Boucher & Helléouet, 1977
Odontophora ornata Lorenzen, 1971
Odontophora parangustilaima Wieser, 1956
Odontophora parasetosa (Allgén, 1929)
Odontophora paratenuicaudata Allgén, 1942
Odontophora paravilloti Blome, 1982
Odontophora phalarata Lorenzen, 1971
Odontophora rectangula Lorenzen, 1971
Odontophora setosa (Allgén, 1929)
Odontophora tenuicaudata Allgén, 1935
Odontophora villoti Luc & De Coninck, 1959
Odontophora wieseri Luc & De Coninck, 1959

Literature

original description	Bütschli, O. (1874). Zur Kenntnis der freilebenden Nematoden, insbesondere der des Kieler Hafens. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	Van Colen, C.; Montserrat, F.; Verbist, K.; Vincx, M.; Steyaert, M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Herman, P.; Degraer, S.; Ysebaert, T. (2009). Tidal flat nematode responses to hypoxia and subsequent macrofauna-mediated alterations of sediment properties. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 381: 189-197.
additional source	Allgén, C. A. (1930). Die Arten und die systematische Stellung des Genus Conolaimus Filipjev Zoologischer. Anzeiger. 88: 198-209.
additional source	Mahmoudi, E.; Essid, N.; Beyrem, H.; Hedfi, A.; Boufahdja, F.; Aïssa, P.; Vitiello, P. (2008). Mussel-farming effects on Mediterranean benthic nematode communities. Nematology. 10 (3): 323-333.
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	De Jesús-Navarrete, A. (2007). Nematodos de los arrecifes de Isla Mujeres y Banco Chinchorro, Quintana Roo, México. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 42(2): 193 – 200.
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.
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	Soetaert, K.. M. Vinckx, J. Wittoeck & M.Tulkens. (1995). Meiobenthic distribution and nematode community structure in five European estuaries. Hydrobiologia. 311: 185-206.
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	Vanreusel, A., M. Vincx, D. Van Gansbeke & W. Gijselinck, W. (1992). Structural analysis of the meiobenthos communities of the shelf break area in two stations of the Gulf of Biscay (N.E. Atlantic). Belgian Journal of Zoology. 122(2):185-202.
ecology source	Vanaverbeke, J.; Deprez, T.; Vincx, M. (2007). Changes in nematode communities at the long-term sand extraction site of the Kwintebank (Southern Bight of the North Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 54(9): 1351-1360.
ecology source	Vanaverbeke, J.; Vincx, M. (2008). Short-term changes in nematode communities from an abandoned intense sand extraction site on the Kwintebank (Belgian Continental Shelf) two years post-cessation. Marine Environmental Research. 66(2): 240-248.
identification resource	Shimada, D.; Suzuki, A. C.; Tsujimoto, M.; Imura, S.; Kakui, K. (2021). Two New Species of Free-living Marine Nematodes (Nematoda: Axonolaimidae and Tripyloididae) from the Coast of Antarctica. Species Diversity. 26(1): 49-63.

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys
NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Odontophora Bütschli, 1874. 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:2418