original description
(of Zanema acanthurum Cobb, 1920) Cobb, N. A. (1920). One hundred new nemas (type species of 100 new genera). Contributions to a science of nematology. 9: 217-343., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18212644 [details] 
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) (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference
Wieser, W. (1956). Free-living marine nematodes III. Axonolaimoidea and Monhysteroidea. Acta Univ Lund N. F. Avd. 2. Bd 52. Nr 13: 1-115.
page(s): 40 [details] Available for editors
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Taxonomic remark syn Zanema acanthurum Cobb 1920 p 283-284 fig 68 (New
Hampshire, USA) [details]