Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Nematoda > Class Enoplea > Subclass Enoplia > Order Enoplida > Suborder Enoplina > Superfamily Enoploidea > Family Thoracostomopsidae > Subfamily Trileptiinae

Trileptium Cobb, 1933

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Trilepta*	Cobb, 1920	junior homonym

Children

Trileptium parisetum Warwick & Platt, 1973
Trileptium subterraneum (Gerlach, 1952) Gerlach & Riemann, 1974

Literature

original description	Cobb, N. A. (1933). New nemic genera and species, with taxonomic notes (Ed. by Margaret V. Cobb). Journal of Parasitology. 20(2): 81-94.
basis of record	Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004).
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	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	Nicholas, W. L. (2007). A new species of Trileptium (Nematoda, Thoracostomopsidae) from a sandy beach in southeastern Australia, with a key to species and observations on geographical distribution. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 41(3): 335-344.
additional source	Vilas-Boas, A. C.; Silva, M. C. D.; Alves, O. F. D. S.; Castro, F. J. D.; P. Pinheiro-Junior, E. (2016). A new species of Trileptium (Nematoda: Thoracostomopsidae) from Bahia, Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba). 33(1).
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)

Genbank

Taxonomy

NeMys

Citation

Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Trileptium Cobb, 1933. 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:2524