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Nemys taxon details

Heterorhabditis Poinar, 1975

1537121  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1537121)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Nematoda (Phylum)
  4. Chromadorea (Class)
  5. Chromadoria (Subclass)
  6. Rhabditida (Order)
  7. Rhabditina (Suborder)
  8. Rhabditomorpha (Infraorder)
  9. Strongyloidea (Superfamily)
  10. Heterorhabditidae (Family)
  11. Heterorhabditis (Genus)
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  1. Species Heterorhabditis amazonensis Andaló, Nguyen & Moino, 2007
  2. Species Heterorhabditis americana Machado, Abolafia, Robles, Ruiz-Cuenca, Bhat, Shokoohi, Půža, Zhang, Erb, Robert & Hibbard, 2025
  3. Species Heterorhabditis atacamensis Edgington, Buddie, Moore, France, Merino & Hunt, 2011
  4. Species Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar, 1976
  5. Species Heterorhabditis baujardi Phan, Subbotin, Nguyen & Moens, 2003
  6. Species Heterorhabditis beicherriana Li, Liu, Nermuť, Půža & Mráček, 2012
  7. Species Heterorhabditis caligo San-Blas, Morales-Montero, Bastidas, Půža & Machado 2025
  8. Species Heterorhabditis casmirica Bhat, Machado, Abolafia, Ruiz-Cuenca, Askary, Ameen & Dass, 2023
  9. Species Heterorhabditis downesi Stock, Griffin & Burnell, 2002
  10. Species Heterorhabditis egyptii Abd-Elgawad & Ameen, 2005
  11. Species Heterorhabditis floridensis Nguyen, Gozel, Köppenhöfer & Adams, 2006
  12. Species Heterorhabditis georgiana Nguyen, Shapiro-Ilan & Mbata, 2008
  13. Species Heterorhabditis hambletoni (Pereira, 1937) Poinar, 1975
  14. Species Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992
  15. Species Heterorhabditis marelatus Liu & Berry, 1996
  16. Species Heterorhabditis megidis Poinar, Jackson & Klein, 1987
  17. Species Heterorhabditis mexicana Nguyen, Shapiro-Ilan, Stuart, McCoy, James & Adams, 2004
  18. Species Heterorhabditis noenieputensis Malan, Knoetze & Tiedt, 2014
  19. Species Heterorhabditis ruandica Machado, Bhat, Abolafia, Muller, Bruno, Fallet, Arce, Turlings, Bernal, Kajuga, Waweru & Toepfer, 2021
  20. Species Heterorhabditis safricana Malan, Nguyen, de Waal & Tiedt, 2008
  21. Species Heterorhabditis taysearae Shamseldean, El-Sooud, Abd-Elgawad & Saleh, 1996
  22. Species Heterorhabditis zacatecana Machado, Bhat, Abolafia, Muller, Bruno, Fallet, Arce, Turlings, Bernal, Kajuga, Waweru & Toepfer, 2021
  23. Species Heterorhabditis zealandica Poinar, 1990
  24. Species Heterorhabditis alii Shamseldean, Abo-Shady, El-Awady & Heikal, 2024 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  25. Species Heterorhabditis heliothidis apud Khan, Brooks & Hirschmann, 1976 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  26. Species Heterorhabditis hoptha (Turco, 1970) Poinar, 1979 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  27. Species Heterorhabditis poinari Kakulia & Mikaia, 1997 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  28. Species Heterorhabditis argentinensis Stock, 1993 accepted as Heterorhabditis bacteriophora Poinar, 1976
  29. Species Heterorhabditis brevicaudis Liu, 1994 accepted as Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992
  30. Species Heterorhabditis cf. safricana apud Edgington et al., 2010 accepted as Heterorhabditis atacamensis Edgington, Buddie, Moore, France, Merino & Hunt, 2011
  31. Species Heterorhabditis downesi Hass, Downes & Griffin, 2001 accepted as Heterorhabditis downesi Stock, Griffin & Burnell, 2002 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  32. Species Heterorhabditis gerrardi Plichta, Joyce, Clarke, Waterfield & Stock, 2009 accepted as Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992
  33. Species Heterorhabditis hawaiiensis Gardner, Stock & Kaya, 1994 accepted as Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992
  34. Species Heterorhabditis heliothidis apud Wouts, 1979 accepted as Heterorhabditis zealandica Poinar, 1990
  35. Species Heterorhabditis hepialius Stock, Strong & Gardner, 1996 accepted as Heterorhabditis marelatus Liu & Berry, 1996
  36. Species Heterorhabditis heterorhabditis Morton & García del Pino, 2008 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  37. Species Heterorhabditis minutus Prabhuraj, Viraktamath & Kumar, 2002 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  38. Species Heterorhabditis pakistanensis Shahina, Tabassum, Salma, Mehreen & Knoetze, 2016 accepted as Heterorhabditis indica Poinar, Karunakar & David, 1992
  39. Species Heterorhabditis riobravus Costa & Furlong, 2006 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  40. Species Heterorhabditis somsookae Maneesakorn, An, Grewal & Chandrapatya, 2015 accepted as Heterorhabditis baujardi Phan, Subbotin, Nguyen & Moens, 2003
  41. Species Heterorhabditis sonorensis Stock, Rivera-Orduño & Flores-Lara, 2009 accepted as Heterorhabditis taysearae Shamseldean, El-Sooud, Abd-Elgawad & Saleh, 1996
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Not documented
Nemys eds. (2025). Nemys: World Database of Nematodes. Heterorhabditis Poinar, 1975. Accessed at: https://nemys.ugent.be/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1537121 on 2026-06-07
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2021-08-31 06:26:48Z
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Holovachov, Oleksandr
2022-06-02 07:59:22Z
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Bezerra, Tânia Nara
2022-08-03 13:22:56Z
changed
Půža, Vladimír
2023-12-03 13:55:02Z
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Holovachov, Oleksandr

original description (of Chromonema Khan, Brooks & Hirschmann, 1976) KHAN, A., BROOKS, W.M. & HIRSCHMANN, H. (1976). Chromonema heliothidis n. gen., n. sp. (Steinernematidae, Nematoda), a parasite of Heliothis zeae (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera), and other insects. <em>Journal of Nematology.</em> 8:159-168. [details] 

taxonomy source Sudhaus, W. (2011). Phylogenetic systematisation and catalogue of paraphyletic "Rhabditidae" (Secernentea, Nematoda). <em>Journal of Nematode Morphology and Systematics.</em> 14(2): 113-178. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Sudhaus, W. (2023). An update of the catalogue of paraphyletic 'Rhabditidae' (Nematoda) after eleven years. <em>SOIL ORGANISMS.</em> 95 (1): 95-116., available online at https://doi.org/10.25674/so95iss1id312 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
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