Nemys - Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863

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Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863

Desmoscolex anterior end

AphiaID

2369 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2369)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Desmoscolecini Shipley, 1896

Original name

Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863

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Subgenus Desmoscolex (Desmolorenzenia) Freudenhammer, 1975
1. Species Desmoscolex (Desmolorenzenia) curvicaudus (Timm, 1978)
Subgenus Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) Claparède, 1863
1. Species Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) cosmopolites Timm, 1970
2. Species Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) gerlachi Timm, 1970
3. Species Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) longisetosus Timm, 1970
4. Species Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) max Timm, 1970
Species Desmoscolex amaurus Lorenzen, 1972
Species Desmoscolex articulatus Timm, 1978
Species Desmoscolex frigidus Timm, 1978
Species Desmoscolex labiosus Lorenzen, 1969
Species Desmoscolex parafalklandiae Allgén, 1955
Species Desmoscolex falklandiae Allgén, 1952 accepted as Quadricoma falklandiae (Allgén, 1952) Timm, 1970 accepted as Tricoma (Quadricoma) falklandiae (Allgén, 1952)
Species Desmoscolex latus Allgén, 1952
Species Desmoscolex longisetosus Timm, 1970 accepted as Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) longisetosus Timm, 1970
Species Desmoscolex cosmopolites Timm, 1970 represented as Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) cosmopolites Timm, 1970
Species Desmoscolex gerlachi Timm, 1970 represented as Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) gerlachi Timm, 1970
Species Desmoscolex max Timm, 1970 represented as Desmoscolex (Desmoscolex) max Timm, 1970
Species Desmoscolex klatti Allgén, 1954 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 89 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Nemys eds. (2024). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2024) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2369 on 2025-04-04

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2025). Register of Antarctic Species. Desmoscolex Claparède, 1863. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=2369 on 2025-04-04

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original description Claparède, A. R. É. (1863). Beobachtungen über Anatomie und Entwicklungsgeschichte wirbelloser Thiere: an der Küste von Normandie angestellt. [Observations on the anatomy and evolution of invertebrates: made on the coast of Normandy.]. Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig. 1-120, 18 plates., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10030
page(s): 89 [details]

taxonomy source Rho, H. S.; Kim, W.; Chang, C. Y. (2007). Description of two new free‐living marine nematode species of the subgenus Desmolorenzenia (Desmoscolecida, genus Desmoscolex ) from Korea. Journal of Natural History. 41(5-8): 313-326., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930601176571 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Nemaslan: Biodiversity of Antarctic Nematodes (2004). (look up in IMIS) [details]

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. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Hwang, U. W.; Choi, E. H.; Kim, D. S.; Decraemer, W.; Chang, C. Y. (2009). Monophyly of the family Desmoscolecidae (Nematoda, Demoscolecida) and Its Phylogenetic position inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Molecules and Cells. 27(5): 515-523., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10059-009-0070-7 [details] Available for editors

additional source Danovaro, R.; Gambi, C.; Lampadariou, N.; Tselepides, A. (2008). Deep-sea nematode biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin: testing for longitudinal, bathymetric and energetic gradients. Ecography. 31(2): 231-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0906-7590.2008.5484.x [details] Available for editors

additional source Sebastian, S.; Raes, M.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2007). Comparison of the nematode fauna from the Weddell Sea Abyssal Plain with two North Atlantic abyssal sites. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography. 54(16-17): 1727-1736. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2007.07.004 [details] Available for editors

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. [details] Available for editors

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. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-004-7145-4 [details] Available for editors

additional source Van Gaever, S.; Olu, K.; Derycke, S.; Vanreusel, A. (2009). Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold seeps along the Norwegian margin: Influence of habitat heterogeneity and evidence for connection with shallow-water habitats. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(5): 772-785., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2008.12.015 [details] Available for editors

additional source Vanreusel, A.; Fonseca, G.; Danovaro, R.; Da Silva, M. C.; Esteves, A. M.; Ferrero, T.; Gad, G.; Galtsova, V.; Gambi, C.; Da Fonsêca Genevois, V.; Ingels, J.; Ingole, B.; Lampadariou, N.; Merckx, B.; Miljutin, D.; Miljutina, M.; Muthumbi, A.; Netto, S.; Portnova, D.; Radziejewska, T.; Raes, M.; Tchesunov, A.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Van Gaever, S.; Venekey, V.; Bezerra, T. N.; Flint, H.; Copley, J.; Pape, E.; Zeppilli, D.; Martinez, P. A.; Galeron, J. (2010). The contribution of deep-sea macrohabitat heterogeneity to global nematode diversity. Marine Ecology. 31(1): 6-20., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1439-0485.2009.00352.x [details] Available for editors

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. [details] Available for editors

additional source Vanaverbeke, J., K. Soetaert, C. Heip & A. Vanreusel. (1997). The metazoan meiobenthos along the continental slope of the Goban Spur (NE Atlantic). Journal of Sea Research. 38:93-107. [details] Available for editors

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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Decraemer, W.; Sturhan, D. (1982). A new terrestrial desmoscolecid, Desmolorenzenia montana (Nematoda, Desmoscolecida). Nematologica. 27(4): 357-365. [details] Available for editors

additional source Buhl-Mortensen, L.; Vanreusel, A.; Gooday, A. J.; Levin, L. A.; Priede, I. G.; Buhl-Mortensen, P.; Gheerardyn, H.; King, N. J.; Raes, M. (2010). Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins. Marine Ecology. 31: 21-50. [details] Available for editors

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. [details] Available for editors

additional source Danovaro, R.; Gambi, M. C.; Dell'Anno, A.; Corinaldesi, C.; Fraschetti, S.; Vanreusel, A.; Vincx, M.; Gooday, A. J. (2008). Exponential decline of deep-sea ecosystem functioning linked to benthic biodiversity loss. Current Biology. 18(1): 1-8 + supplemental data: S1-S6; 1-16. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.11.056 [details] Available for editors

additional source Decraemer, W. (1975). Scientific report on the Belgian expedition to the great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes I : Desmoscolex-species (Nematoda - Desmoscolecida) from yonge reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island with general characteristics of the Genus Desmoscolex. Annales de la Société royale Zoologique de Belgique. 104, 105-130. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Decraemer, W. (1979). Taxonomic problems within the Desmoscolecida (Nematoda). Ann. Soc. Roy. Zool. Bel. 108(1-2): 9-16. [details] Available for editors

additional source Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T.; Vanreusel, A.; Lindegarth, M. (2010). Variation in nematode assemblages over multiple spatial scales and environmental conditions in Arctic deep seas. Progress in Oceanography. 84 (3-4): 174-184., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2009.11.001 [details] Available for editors

additional source Gallucci, F.; Fonseca, G.; Soltwedel, T. (2008). Effects of megafauna exclusion on nematode assemblages at a deep-sea site. Deep-sea Research I. 55 (3): 32-349. [details] Available for editors

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. [details]

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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-010-0041-4 [details] Available for editors

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. [details] Available for editors

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. [details] Available for editors

ecology source Ingels, J.; Vanhove, S.; De Mesel, I.; Vanreusel, A. (2006). The biodiversity and biogeography of the free-living nematode genera Desmodora and Desmodorella (family Desmodoridae) at both sides of the Scotia Arc. Polar Biology. 29(11): 936-949., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-006-0135-4 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Ingels, J., K. Kiriakoulakis, G.A. Wolff & A. Vanreusel. (2009). Nematode diversity and its relation to the quantity and quality of sedimentary organic matter in the deep Nazaré Canyon, Western Iberian Margin. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 56(9): 1521-1539. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2009.04.010 [details]

ecology source Decraemer, W. (1974). Scientific report on the Belgian expedition to the Great Barrier Reef in 1967. Nematodes II. Desmoscolex-species (Nematoda-Desmoscolecida) from Yonge Reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island. Zoologica Scripta. 3: 167-176. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

ecology source Decraemer, W. (1975). Scientific Report on the Belgian expedition to the Great Barrier reef in 1967. Nematodes III : further study of desmoscolex - species (Nematoda-Desmoscolecida) from Yonge Reef, Lizard Island and Nymphe Island. Cahiers de Biologie Marine. 16: 269-284. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

ecology source Leduc, D.; Probert, P.; Nodder, S. (2010). Influence of mesh size and core penetration on estimates of deep-sea nematode abundance, biomass, and diversity. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers. 57(10): 1354-1362., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2010.06.005 [details] Available for editors